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Arguing may never win people to your view, but loving them as Christ does will win you many friends over time...Henry Blackaby........2Timothy2:24 "And the servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient."

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Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house...-Mother Teresa........Matthew10:8b "...Give as freely as you have received."

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Creativity always means the doing of the unfamiliar, the breaking of new ground...-Eleanor Roosevelt........Proverbs11:27 "If you search for good, you will find favor; but if you search for evil, it will find you!"

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Happiness is not a destination. It is the attitude with which you choose to travel...-Arit Desal........Psalm100:2 "Worship the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful songs."

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We never know how high we are/ Till we are asked to rise/ And then, if we are true to plan/ Our statures touch the skies...-Emily Dickinson..........Psalm100:3 "Know that the Lord is God. It is He, who made us, and we are His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture."

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You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say - F. Scott Fitzgerald........Psalm100:4 "Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name."

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When we look back and wonder how we ever made it through, we realize it's not because we've been clever, but because God has been Wise. Not because we've been strong, but because God has been Mighty; Not because we've been consistent, but because God has been Faithful!...-Raul Romulo.....Psalm100:5 "For the Lord is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations."

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Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose and began to give freely, everything began to flow into my life..-Patti Labelle.........Psalm40:3 "He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what He has done and be astounded. They will put their trust in the Lord."

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Many people want to direct God instead of surrendering themselves to be directed by Him. They want to show Him the way instead of submissively following where He leads…- Madame Guyon ……… Luke 12:8,9. – Jeremiah 10:23 “I tell you, whoever acknowledges Me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God. But he who disowns Me before men will be disowned before the angels of God. – I know, O Lord, that a man’s life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps.”

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Faith is the force of life...- Tolstoy........Psalm97:10 "Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for He guards the lives of His faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked."

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Love virtue and your people will be virtuous. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends...- Henry David Thoreau........1Peter1:24 "For all men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the Word of the Lord stands forever."

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Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?..-Albert Einstein........James1:4-8 "Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does."

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THE FIRST OFWS- On receiving the Symbolic Key to Madrid in December, Pres GMA paid tribute to the most storied generation of Filipinos who ever studied abroad. In the 19th century, Madrid attracted great thinkers and talented Filipinos of that time-Rizal, Blumentritt, Del Pilar, Viola, Ponce, Basa, Luna. Here in the liberal environment of the Spanish capital, our young patriots met to work for the welfare of the motherland, right here in the heart of mother Spain. Ilustrados-the students from the Philippines who imbibed the spirit of the Enlightenment and strove to bring it, and a new dawn of freedom, to the benighted country they had left behind...-PDI Editorial........Proverbs30:18 "There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden."

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In China's last dynasty the Qing(1644-1911), many ancient were more closely defined. The old shensi or 'gentry' classification was retained, and it was from such men that government officials were selected. These were The Mandarins, guan in Chinese, whose English equivalent 'mandarin' comes from the Portugese word 'mandar' meaning 'to command'...-Nigel Cameron, The Chinese Scholar's Desk..........Romans15:1,2 "Now we who are strong oughtto bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to his edification."

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In the code of the Samurai, nothing is more loathsome to him than underhanded dealings and crooked undertakings. Rectitude (justice) is the power of deciding upon a certain course of conduct in accordance with reason, without wavering;-to die when it is right to die, to strike when it is right to strike. Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. As without bones the head cannot rest on the top of the spine, nor hands move nor feet stand, so without rectitude neither talent nor learning can make of a human frame a samurai........Inazo Nitobe, Bushido-The Soul of Japan........Galatians6:3-5 "If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load."

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Benevolence is man's mind and Rectitude or Righteousness his path. How lamentable is it to neglect the path and not pursue it, to lose the mind and not seek it again! When men's fowls and dogs are lost, they know to seek for them again, but they lose their mind and do not know to seek for it...-Mencius........Galatians6:1,2 "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."

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Do not die of the fool's disease. The wise generally after they have lost their reason, fools before they have found it. To die of the fools disease is to die of too much thought. Some die because they think and feel too much, others live because they do not think and feel at all. The first are fools because they die of sorrow, the others because they do not. A fool is he that dies of too much knowledge. Thus some die because they are too knowing, others because they are not knowing enough. Yet though many die like fools, few die fools...-Gracian, translated by Joseph Jacobs......... Psalm39:4,-Psalm90:12 "Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.- So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."

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Perceiving what is right, and doing it not, argues lack of Courage. Courage, the spirit of daring and bearing; is scarcely deemed worthy to be counted among virtues unless it is excercised in the cause of Righteousness...-Confucius Analects.........Micah6:8 "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"

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JUST DO IT! Believe it can be done/ Have goals/ Live life to the full/ Never give up/ Prepare well/ Have faith in yourself/ Try and try again/ Help each other...-Sir Richard Branson.......Galatians5:13 "By love serve one another."

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I've come to believe that each of us has a calling that's as unique as a fingerprint and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others... - Oprah Winfrey..........Mark12:33 "To love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

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There are two extremes, O brethren, which a holy man should avoid- the habitual practice of. . . self indulgence, which is vulgar and profitless. . .and the practice of self mortification, which is painful and equally profitless...-Buddha, The sermon at Benares........ Matthew23:12 "For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

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The adult with a capacity for true maturity is one who has grown out of childhood without losing childhood's best traits. He has retained the basic emotional strengths of infancy, the stubborn autonomy of totterhood, the capacity for wonder and pleasure and playfulness of the preschool years, the idealism and passion of adolesence. He has incorporated these into a new pattern of development dominated by adult stability, wisdom, knowledge, sensitivity to other people, responsibility, strength, and purposiveness. The Fully Functioning Mature Person...-Joseph Stone and Joseph Church........1Thessalonians 5:15 "Ever follow that which is good."

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Most business people worship their work, work at their play, and play at their worship...-Whit Criswell......... Colossians3:23, 24 "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving."

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I have one reason for being optimistic, and that is that I see throughout my own country, the USA, and throughout the world the rising of the world's first people power movement on a global basis...-Al Gore, former US Vice Pres and Nobel Peace Prize Winner on the Global Warming-Climate Change Movement.... ..1Chronicles19:13 "Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the Lord do that which is good in his sight."

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During the American Civil War, au the battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, a surgeon asked a soldier where he was hurt. The wounded soldier answered, "Right near the top of the mountain." He was not thinking of his gaping wound but was only remembering that he had won the ground near the top of the mountain...May we also go forth to higher endeavors for Christ, never resting until we can shout from the mountaintop..-Charles H. Spurgeon........1Timothy 4:7 "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."

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You cannot intercede if you do not believe in the reality of the Redemption; you will turn intercession into futile sympathy with human beings which will only increase their submissive content to being out of touch with God...-O. Chambers...........Luke18:1 "They should always pray and not give up."

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Any problem that comes between God and myself springs out of disobedience; any problem, and there are many, that is alongside me while I obey God, increases my ecstatic delight, because I know that my Father knows, and I am going to watch and see how He unravels this thing...-Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest...........John14:27 "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you...Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."

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My album is a savage chest,/ Where fierce storms brood and shadows rest,/ Without one ray of light;/ To write the name of Jesus there,/ And see the savage bow in prayer,/ And point to worlds more bright and fair,/ This is my soul's delight/...-Robert Moffat, 19th century Scottish explorer and missionary to South Africa when asked to autograph a young admirer's album.......Luke1:33 "His Kingdom will never end."

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The estate tax has been historically part of our very fundamental belief that we should have a meritocracy that we do not want a system-where we expect people to make it on their own-to be, over time, dominated by inherited wealth. That we do believe that people should have to get out there and make their way, to a great extent. Estates worth up to $2M will be exempt from Federal estate tax up to 2008. Estates above that threshold will be taxed at 45%. In 2011, the top tax rate will be 55%...-Hillary Rodham Clinton, San Francisco News.... ....Ecclesiastes2:26 "To the man who pleases Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God."

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It's no secret that the USA is swimming-drowning-in borrowed cash. According to the Federal Reserve, US Consumer debt has reached $2.43trillion, or about $21,900 per household, a number that has nearly doubled over the past decade-and that doesn't include $10trillion in mortgage debt. Consumer debt today equals 132% of the average household's annual disposable income...-Ken Bensinger, Wall Street Journal Smart Money........Titus3:3,-John3:7 "We ourselves also were sometime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.-So don't be surprised at My statement that you must be born again. Just as you can hear the wind but can't tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can't explain how people are born of the Spirit."