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The price of greatness is responsibility.

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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

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The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

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Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

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My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.

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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God

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