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If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.

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• My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.

  

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• Just when they thought I was done for the winter, I came out stuntin I'm such a big spender.

  

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• There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause- He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus.

  

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• Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.

  

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• We were trailing at the three mile point. The guys picked it up in the last two miles and we were able to pull it off.

  

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• The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.

  

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• You know, I'm not too sure what you just said. Now everybody gets a great deal.

  

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• This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.

  

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• If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.

  

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• If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.

  

  Padgett Powell
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