God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.
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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.
Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.
That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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