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“Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.”

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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

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No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

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No man need stay the way he is.

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Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

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Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

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He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

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