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" Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. "

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" As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within. "

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" The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution. "

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" We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not. "

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" Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it. "

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" There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle. "

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" People are starting to wake up to the fact that a media/political party-complex basically decide our candidate, then create the illusion for the rest of us that in fact we're the ones who did the deciding. "

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" Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace. "

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" People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't. "

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" When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal. "

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" In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame. "

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" Divine organization is inherent in all things. "

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" A threat to our freedom is a threat to our freedom, whether from a terrorist or from a trade deal. "

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" The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole. "

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" War is just an effect, not a cause. "

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" Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them! "

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" Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. "

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" We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes. "

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" Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it. "

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" I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way. "

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" Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice. "

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" We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. "

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" The daughters of God don't brake for jerks. "

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" The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address. "

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" Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct. "

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" Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse. "

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" Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes. "

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" If I just want to 'start a conversation,' I don't need to run for office. As a matter of fact, it could be argued that many people are more open to hearing you if you're not running for office. "

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" I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be. "

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