John C. Maxwell Quotes
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
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Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
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My grandmother can never really teach me anything because she skips steps.
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It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
