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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“I used to pray that God would do this or that. Now I pray that God will make his will known to me. — Madame Chiang Kai-shek”
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“I would not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. — Carl Jung”
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“I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. — Emma Goldman”
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“I’m thankful for a husband who has a good job and awesome insurance. — Mary DeMuth”
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“If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. — Confucius”
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“If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs? — John Clare (17931864), Letter to a friend. From J.W. and Anne Tibble, John Clare: A Life [1932]”
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“If one person can do a job in one hour, four persons can do it in four hours. — Herbert V. Prochnow”
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“If people desire a result, they then attempt to conceive of a reason that they deserve it. — Robert Fritz”
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“If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, and the people do not become religious, I do not know what is to become of us as a nation. — Daniel Webster”
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“If the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. — Fëdor Mikhailovich Dostoevski (18211881), The Brothers Karamazov, V, 4”
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“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. — Abraham Maslow”
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“If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort. — Timothy Ferriss”
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“If we genuinely believe we will fail at something, we can get all the help in the world and will still manage to prove ourselves right. — Terry Burns”
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“If we just live within ourselves, or our lives are just determined by our own needs, our wants, or our desires, it gets [to be] a very small world. — Eugene Peterson, Author of The Message”
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“If you are going to find work worth doing—a vocation to fulfill and challenge you—you will have to encounter a reality bigger than yourself. — Jeff Goins”
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“If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there. — Martin Luther”
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“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. — Saint Augustine”
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“If you can do something better than the rest of the world, it doesn’t mean that’s what you should be doing. — Timothy Ferriss”
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“If you do have an unfavorable opinion of yourself no amount of argument would change your real opinion. — Robert Fritz”
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“If you have no joy, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere. — Billy Sunday”
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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa”
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“If you prepare the soil well and are careful in your cultivation, you will reap a harvest. — Bob Burg”
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“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. — Mark Twain”
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“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. — Booker T. Washington”
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“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter”
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“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. — Robert E. Lee”
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“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts. — Goethe”
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“In fair weather prepare for foul. — Thomas Fuller”
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“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. — Blaise Pascal”
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“In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. — Erasmus”
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“Indebtedness cannot be lessened by borrowing more money, or by changing the form of the debt. — Martin Van Buren”
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“Inside every small problem is a large problem struggling to get out. — Paul Hughes”
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“Into each life some rain must fall. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
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“It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. — Mark Twain”
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“It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. — Syrus”
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“It is best not to swap horses while crossing the river. — Abraham Lincoln”
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“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man by argument. — William McAdoo”
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“It is in our lives and not from our words, that religion must be read. — Thomas Jefferson”
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“It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. — Peter von Winter”
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