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• Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

  Eric Liu

  Children, Self, Comfort

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• One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

  Maimonides

  Evil, Balance, Doe

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• So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.

  Dave Matthews

  Couple, Mean, Squirrels

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• When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

  Sarah McLachlan

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• I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Young, Feels, One Thing

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• Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Memorable, Religion, Sin

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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• God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely.

  Joyce Meyer

  Grace, Favors, God Is Love

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• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Mistake, Learning, Advice

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  God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Nature, Sea, Tree

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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• Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Beautiful

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Success, Accomplishment, Lifetime

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Love, Accomplishment, Accomplished

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

  Chuck Norris

  Fighting, Guy, Acting

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• We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Leader, Unions

  Barack Obama's Address to a Joint Session of Congress, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 8, 2011.

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• I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.

  Suze Orman

  Home, Eight, People

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• A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

  George Osborne

  States, Should, Whole Life

  "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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• That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

  Saint Patrick

  Latin, Believe, Doe

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  The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Integrity, Yoga

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• If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  People, Pedestal, Easy

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• You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

  John Piper

  Christian, People, Threatening

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• The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

  Elvis Presley

  Singing, Records, Firsts

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• Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Believe, Mean, Names

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• I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.

  Kid Rock

  Children, Men, Fire

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from May 15, 2014

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• Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Money, Business, Years

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• And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

  Marco Rubio

  Airplane, Men, Slave Ships

  "War of Choice" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. January 9, 2012.

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