“When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.” — Erasmus

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Pacman Jones is a uniquely gifted athelete. Paris Hilton is a media diva. Pacman is from the mean streets of Atlanta. Paris is from the mountains of Malibu. At first glance these two have nothing in common, but a closer look reveals that they do indeed share more than the fact that they have had [...]

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“The center of every man’s existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.”
~ GK Chesterton

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Rocky Balboa is the final film in the “Rocky” series. An aging Rocky is inspired to fight his last match against the undefeated heavyweight champion. Many people, including his son, believe Rocky will be humiliated.
In this scene, Rocky and his adult son are standing outside Rocky’s restaurant. His son is upset because Rocky has decided [...]

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One of the things I want to start doing on this web site is introduce you to some cool pastors you might not otherwise know anything about.
It was my privilege to have lunch last week with Michael Christian, pastor of Fairview Church in Lebanon, Tennessee. Michael has done an amazing job with this church, [...]

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“Upon the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who at the threshold of victory sat down to wait and waiting died.”

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Rudyard Kipling to his son:

If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs
And blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
And make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting
Or being lied about don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give [...]

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“ A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”
~ Sir Barnett Cocks

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“There is no shortcut to any place worth going or to anything worth having.”
~ Dr. David Foster

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Everywhere I go I run into tired people. People are tired of trying; trying to make life work, trying to enjoy a dead-end job, or trying to jump-start a marriage when the love has long gone away.
Trying harder is so ingrained in our culture, that we’ve developed myths around it. Here are my Top Ten [...]

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