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  1. Michael R. Phillips _ A Perilous Proposal

    Look here, Duff, I said, you think your life is hard, well, lots of other folks' lives are hard too. Some of them are even harder than yours! So you quit feeling so sorry for yourself like you've got it so bad. You're alive, aren't you? You're healthy and strong, aren't you? You don't have it nearly so bad as you think. No matter what you've been through, life can be a pretty good thing if you'll let it.
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  2. Michael R. Phillips _ A Perilous Proposal

    There's a lot of angry people in the world, Jake-lots and lots of angry people. Some are angry down inside where nobody sees. Others you can tell just from looking at them. I've seen a lot of folks with anger inside them, Jake. It's not pleasant to see. Anger's not a pretty thing. It makes people miserable inside. Then there's other folks that get sad and discouraged at all the hardships that come in their lives. Maybe they don't get angry, but they go around being sad and miserable and letting people know it. They want people to feel sorry for them, and that's not too pretty to see either." "So
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  3. Michael R. Phillips _ A Perilous Proposal

    It's like this, Jake . . . when life gets hard-whether you're white or black doesn't make any difference-folks have got a choice what to do about it.
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  4. Michael R. Phillips _ A Perilous Proposal

    We're supposed to think about it. Whenever we look around us, we're supposed to find out the meaning God put into the things we see.
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