Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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The best gift God has given man is the Bible. It is by all odds the most influential book (or rather collection of books) in existence. The Old and New Testaments have held men together spiritually through the centuries. Three hundred and fifty years ago, in 1611, fifty four devoted English scholars and churchmen, assigned to the task by King James I, gave to the English speaking world a monument of noble prose, on which so many of us have been brought up. The Bible has been translated into more than 1,150 languages. In short, the Bible has had the most dramatic career of any book in the world.
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My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them
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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
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Bush also defended the Mission Accomplished ... People make a big deal out of it. It was not a mistake to go to the carrier. And there was certainly no intention to say that this was over quite the contrary. If people had listened to what I said, I said there is more hard work to do. And there is hard work to do.
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