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Twelve Ordinary Men: How the Master Shaped His Disciples for Greatness and What He Wants to Do With You

by John F. MacArthur Jr.

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

tags: life-death

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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