The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose … - Richard Paul Evans

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The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

Richard Paul Evans

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

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Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.

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. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

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Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

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Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

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You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

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When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding.

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