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“What you focus on and the way you think will determine the way you live.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

“The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The Christians have made him the murderer of himself, and the founder of a new religion to supersede and expel the Jewish religion. And to find pretence and admission for these things, they must have supposed his power or his wisdom imperfect, or his will changeable; and the changeableness of the will is the imperfection of the judgement.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

“A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!”
― C. Toni Graham

“Working really hard is what successful people do, and the genius of the culture formed in the rice paddies is that hard work gave those in the fields a way to find meaning in the midst of great uncertainty and poverty.”
― Malcolm Gladwell , Outliers: The Story of Success