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“Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.”
Source : Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon “A Short Method Of Prayer”, Library of Alexandria
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“There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.”
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“I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.”
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“Of course it's super special to create your own records; it really is a part of my self.”
Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com
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“I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.”
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“When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing.”
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“The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.”
Source : John Scarne (1980). “Scarne on dice”, Random House Value Pub
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“The social network will be the new production line in a company,”
Source : CFR's annual Corporate Conference, New York, www.cfr.org. March 7, 2013. 
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“Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.”
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“My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."”
Source : James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.83, A&C Black
