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Leader?
If the masses are predisposed to go a certain direction, the one who arises take them there is not a leader but a figurehead.

Mob rule
When the majority rules, you get what they deserve.

Good
Love, by faith, will always choose the uncertainties of goodness, over hopeful certainties promised by evil.

Courage
Courage is choosing to fear only one of the consequences and to face the others. Cowardice is a determination to flee all consequences.

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Nothing
If you have nothing, don’t waste any of it and always use it wisely.

Motive
Where achievement alone is the driving force, purpose is distorted.

The problem
When it is always everybody else, it probably is you.

True Love
Many desire, fewer love, beware the difference.

Big fish
Despise not the small fish if it is all you can catch, it may be the bait that catches the big one.

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Mercy
When mercy first appears, you might not always like it.

Hope
When you can find no hope, hope for hope.

Sin
He who sins harms all, no less himself.

Always
Righteousness is always the victor regardless of the outcome.

Seeing
You are the only person in the world that sees things from behind your eyes.

Run
Life is a marathon but when you see the ribbon, sprint full speed.

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Alone
There is none lonelier than the lonely that is not alone.

Give up
It is an act of greatness to surrender when you do not have to, but should.

Antidote?
It seems that more often than not, humanity attempts to the cure the world’s illnesses by administering additional ones.

Value
The only true measure of a person’s worth is goodness.

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Rebels
Worse than a rebel without a cause is a worthy cause without a rebel.

Uptight
A contentious person starts an argument even when in essence they agree.

Paradox
Even a conservative is trapped inside of a liberal’s body.

Final destination
Just because you know you are on the right track, do not take it for granted that you are on the right train.

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Standard bears
The standard bearers of destruction almost always march under ensigns of salvation.

Means and ends
A means must be justified before the end; and the end is a witness for the means, or the accuser of it.

Truth and goodness
Relentlessly pursue goodness and truth will appear.

Inevitable
Everyone eventually loses to God; surrender now and avoid the rush.

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Revealed
The deepest understandings are not merely the result of figuring things out, but rather, they are revelations which come as a gift.

Scientific paradox
There is a tendency within the scientific community to deny absolutes, yet, when confronted by faith, that same community will often by faith, take an absolute position against it. And if it be otherwise, upon what foundation do they then have to argue—one that is not absolute?

Time is
Time does not exist in the past; it is gone. Nor does it exist in the future; it has not arrived. Time is.

Self vs. self
Because you relate to yourself, you are most easily deceived and overcome by yourself. On the other hand, by knowing yourself, you can resist and overcome yourself.

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Mental paralysis
A captive of thoughts losses freedom to think.

Road work
Anger is the bulldozer that paves the way to tyranny, a despot pours in the fuel of hatred and steers it.

Brave new world
When efficiency is the end goal for management of society, those who have no place will face the elimination of their being.

Answers?
When science answers a question it begs a thousand more.

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Deceiver
The most deceitful liars in the world are emotions. On the other hand, sometimes they know much more than you do.

Greatest victory
He who defeats himself defeats all.

True love
True love is by far a doer more than a feeler.

Cause and affection
Why are those who starve their people looked upon with benevolence when they throw a few crumbs to some of them?

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Absolutes and time
All things are absolute; those which are not will be once they are outside of time.

Truth?
When you shouldn’t tell your truth, tell someone else’s.

Worst wrong
The worst wrongs are the ones that are absolutely brilliantly wrong.

Cause of causes
Often the cause of a cause is to simply have a cause.