It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. - John Phillips - Quotesmemo.com

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I've always felt like the most improvement you can make is from year 1 to year 2, much like a college freshman who the most improvement he can make in an entire one year of college football is going from year 1 freshman year to his sophomore year. Like a pro football player going from his rookie season to his second season. There's a window there that will never come again that you have a chance to making your biggest strides.

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John Phillips

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

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There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

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Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid, more real, more substantial, and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.

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We will continue to see a convergence of the digital and physical world. Those who conquer that trend will be market leaders.

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When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

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If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, if you're going to San Francisco, you're gonna meet some gentle people there.

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