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“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
Leo Tolstoy

“I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.”
C.S. Lewis

“They’d never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program.”
Frank Herbert

“I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand”
Leo Tolstoy

“And finally, at age seventy, having distinguished himself as a brilliant Secretary of State, an independent President and an eloquent member of Congress, he was to record somberly that his “whole life has been a succession of disappointments. I can scarcely recollect a single instance of success in anything that I ever undertook.”
John F. Kennedy

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas A. Edison

“The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“Badness is only spoiled goodness.”
C.S. Lewis

“I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.”
Leo Tolstoy

“The Right Thought plus the Right People in the Right Environment at the Right Time for the Right Reason = the Right Result”
John C. Maxwell

“The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.”
Thomas Jefferson

“For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.”
C.S. Lewis

“Pain,” she sniffed. “A human can override any nerve in the body.”
Frank Herbert

“A little rebellion is good now and then.” 
Thomas Jefferson

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