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book, and it’s used about 35 times

throughout the book of Ecclesiastes.

When I was about 17 or 18 years of age,

my philosophy of life was to eat, drink, for

tomorrow you die. Now, I didn't know that

was in 1 Corinthians. I didn't quote it exactly

that way, but I used to look around me as I

was growing up without Christ, without any

religious training, and I would look around

me and say, "What's the use?” I would look

at my family; I would look at my relatives; I

would look at other people. I looked at the

school; I looked at all the things in life, and

literally that was my philosophy, because I

saw that you spend the first 18 or 20 years

of your life in school, and then you spend

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