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“Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.” 
Thomas A. Edison

“Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come," Tuek said. "Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool your sorrow–we’ve the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart–water, green grass, and the beauty of woman.”
Frank Herbert

“Christ can take the most sin-laden, selfish, evil person and bring forgiveness and new life.”
Billy Graham

“Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.”
Thomas Jefferson

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy.”
Barack Obama

“Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.”
Frank Herbert

“You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results.”
John C. Maxwell

“Chicago, a town that’s accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment.”
Barack Obama

“Consider, for example, the strange and fascinating story of Mohammed; analyze his life, compare him with men of achievement in this modern age of industry and finance, and observe how they have one outstanding trait in common, persistence!”
Napoleon Hill

“All, all dead: and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know not us.”
Thomas Jefferson

“That is the one thing that makes me a Democrat, I suppose - this idea that our communal values, our sense of mutual responsibility and social solidarity, should express themselves not just in the church or the mosque or the synagogue; not just on the blocks where we live, in the places where we work, or within our own families; but also through our government.”
Barack Obama

“The number-one reason most people lose arguments is not because they’re wrong; it’s because they don’t know when to quit.”
John C. Maxwell

“When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.”
Albert Einstein

“well as programs like the GI Bill that made a college education available to millions, government”
Barack Obama

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