Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Value is what you get.
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The key to growing a business is that you need to be meeting some segment of the consumer's needs. If you've got a small business and a product or service that is not popular, you simply have to change your product or service to be more popular.
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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
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We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
