Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

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If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. — Frank Pittman

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In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

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Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live! Leonard Ravenhill

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I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. If you go through a weekly Monday through Friday, it's all there. It's in how people on the sitcoms and cop shows talk to each other. — Bill Cosby

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Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

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