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“To subjugate another is to evidence the fact that I have subjugated myself to all of the lesser things that have prompted me to do in the life of another what I have allowed these lesser thing to do in my life.”

Life Slavery Foolish Compromise Dictator Enslave Subjugate Lesser Things

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We spend our lives using our liberties to engage in the very things that enslave us. And that’s because we’ve taken license with the gift of liberty, rendered it a stepchild to the bane of our greed, and found our lives enslaved to the tyrant that we have become.”

Liberty Abuse Slave Greed Foolish Foolishness License Tyrant

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“Running from what we fear is like throwing a bunch of stuff in the bed of a truck and somehow thinking that driving the truck will distance us from what’s laying in the bed.”

Running Fear Foolish Flight Naive Truck Flee Distancing

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“Words are too easy. Therefore, never speak them unless you intend to act upon whatever they’re saying.”

Speak Serious Intention Words Foolish Actions Careless Intentional Flippant Pablum

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“Far too often we’ve convinced ourselves that we’re standing for something that will never allow us to get up.”

Politics Foolish Agendas Stand Up Stand Stands Political Platforms

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“The fool believes that to redefine something in a more palatable manner means that it’s less likely to make you sick.”

Politics Fool Sick Illness Foolish Revision Definition Redefine Palatable Historical Revision

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The best way to stick your hand in a hornet’s nest is to first determine all of the reasons why you shouldn’t.”

Wisdom Wise Stupidity Foolish Discernment Impulsive Thoughtless Reactive Hornet

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“The solution to the problem probably has nothing to do with ninety percent of all the things that we’re doing to solve the problem.”

Problem Wisdom Stupid Waste Solve Foolish Irrelevant Solution Ineffective

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“Someone once said, “Throw it against the wall until it sticks.” But we appear to live in a culture that’s throwing a lot of nothing at walls that do not exist.”

Culture Politics Stupidity Foolish Ignorant Agendas Throwing Meaningless Foolishness Walls

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It remains my ardent prayer that we would be compelled to repent of the abuses that we have perpetrated upon liberty, that we would rediscover freedom as a cherished privilege and not a rotting right, and that we would bow before the Creator who wove into creation itself the morals that are imperative to our own fragile existence and without which freedom itself is certain to perish. And in committing to these actions, it is my hope that we as a repentant people would breathe life back into a nation that we have drawn the very life out of.”

Freedom Prayer Liberty Foolish Repent Perish Abuses

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“If we crash and burn, there’s a good chance that we were driving a car that we shouldn’t have been in, on a road that we shouldn’t have been on.”

Wisdom Choices Car Foolish Mistakes Crash Consequences Road Repercussions Crash And Burn

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“To let myself be defined by my greatest mistakes is my greatest mistake.”

Identity Foolish Mistakes Defined Incorrect Inaccurate

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“The need for a solution suggests the existence of a problem. The existence of a problem suggests the presence of a mistake. And a mistake suggests the existence of a less than wise choice that was probably mine.”

Problem Wisdom Wise Stupid Errors Stupidity Foolish Mistakes Failures Solution

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“To abandon the past is to throw away all of the elements that will build my future. And that creates a landfill I can’t afford to fill.”

Wisdom Past Future Stupidity Foolish Mistakes Present Failures Learning Opportunities

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The worst of our behaviors will always sabotage the best of our dreams.”

Sin Worst Foolish Consequences Destroy Repercussions Sabotage Behaviors Sinful Upend

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“The most deceptive thing about revenge is in thinking that we’re not hurt by it, when in fact we’re the one’s most hurt by it.”

Hurt Hatred Revenge Foolish Bitterness Resentment Fooled Deceptive

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The fool believes that pretending can be done with such flair and perceived genius that it can alter the reality of that which it is attempting to avoid in the pretending.”

Reality Fear Fool Foolish Manipulation Pretending Pretend Alter

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“To believe that you can outwit the truth is to have been outwitted.”

Reality Truth Ignorance Fool Foolish Denial Fact Outwit

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“I don’t think that mankind has ever written a narrative that he didn’t need to be saved from.”

Reality Truth Politics Mankind Honesty Foolish Narrative Manipulation Fact

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“We need to get over the fact that we don’t have the power to create ‘truth.’ However, we do have the power to decide how we’re going to respond to it. And we’d be wise not to get over that.”

Wisdom Reality Truth Honesty Foolish Manipulation Deceived Fact

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“Reality was not meant to be changed by us. Rather, it was meant to be wrestled with so that we are changed by it.”

Wisdom Reality Truth Foolish Denial Justification Fact Self Deception Rationalization Self Soothing

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“Don’t be fooled. If we have created the light within which we are standing, we are in denial of the darkness into which we have fallen.”

God Light Christian Jesus Darkness Fool Foolish Fallen Deceived

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“It is the fool who thinks that he can live in the darkness and not become dark.”

God Christian Evil Jesus Dark Sin Darkness Fool Foolish

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“Thinking that we can provide a light to our path is assuming that we have the batteries for a flashlight that we never had.”

Life God Light Jesus Path Foolish Arrogance Batteries Flashlight

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“Think for yourself. If you don’t, someone else will and you may not appreciate all of the thinking that they did for you.”

Thinking Wisdom Foolish Decisions Mediocrity Apathy Thoughtless

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“Apathy is the act of depositing ideas into a bank of knowledge from which nothing is ever withdrawn.”

Foolish Lazy Mediocrity Apathy Passive Disinterested Bank Of Knowledge

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“Apathy is hope relegated to myth.”

Hope Myth Foolish Mediocrity Apathy Passive Apathetic

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“I suppose that the greatest blindness is to assume the absence of blindness.”

Lost Darkness Ignorance Fool Blind Absence Foolish Blindness Assumptions Wandering

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“Apathy takes root when I refuse to remember that which I can ill-afford to forget.”

Remember Forget Foolish Mediocrity Apathy Careless Irresponsible Inattentive

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