I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.
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Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
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Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.
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A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.
Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24].
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
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Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
