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“I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.” quote by Dan Rather — Download Open image

“I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.”

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Confidence comes from cutting yourself some slack.

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We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but tells us plainly that he is always watching us, and desiring to sift us as wheat. I believe we give him no more than his due, when we charge him with having a hand in all…

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