Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
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Any woman that you're in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It's actually easier to focus, in some ways.
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If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.
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Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with new oil. Do not be satisfied with past experiences. [...] Seek to have a new revelation of Christ to your soul. Seek the renewed application of His precious blood to your conscience. Oh, seek the fresh oil!
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All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.
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Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
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All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.
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What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.
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Most Americans cannot save more than $6,000 a year from depreciating real estate. That's all they can write off against their salary or business profits.
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Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
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Through the wise ordering of Creation man has been given the power to shape conditions for himself with the Power of the Creator. Happy is he who uses it only for good! But woe unto him who succumbs to the temptation to use it for evil.
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Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.
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You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.
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In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
