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“it appears that, as is the case in our time with the ills of all nations, the reason lies in the lack of a reasonable religious teaching which by explaining the meaning of life would supply a supreme law for the guidance of conduct and would replace the more than dubious precepts of pseudo-religion and pseudo-science with the immoral conclusions deduced from them and commonly called 'civilization'.  ”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Milton was right,’ said my Teacher. ‘The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.” There is always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery. There is always something they prefer to joy—that is, to reality.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Leadership is the ability to elicit extraordinary performance from ordinary people.”
― Brian Tracy

“Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“Having resentment against someone is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy.”
― Nelson Mandela

“You can’t stop people from thinking—but you can start them.”
― John C. Maxwell

“He cannot ravish; He can only woo.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".
― Leo Tolstoy

“Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?”
― Mother Teresa

“When you offer a negative thought of action, you open the negative memory-bank and you may lose all your power to persuade.”
― Napoleon Hill

“When the going is hardest, just keep on keeping on, and you’ll get there sooner than someone who finds the going easy.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Fellas, things are going to change. I know how bad DeMatha’s teams have been during these last few years, but that’s over with. We’re going to win at DeMatha and we’re going to build a tradition of winning. Starting right now . . . But let me tell you how we’re going to do it. We’re going to outwork every team we ever play . . . With a lot of hard work and discipline and dedication, people are going to hear about us and respect us, because DeMatha will be a winner.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organised into definite plans of action and directed to a definite end.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Whatever I was, I owed to my family and to all those who struggled with me. But my biggest debt I owed to my wife. She was the one who gave my life meaning. All I could pledge to her, and to all those millions, was that I would do all I could to justify the faith that she, and they, had in me. I would try more than ever to make my life one of which she, and they, could be proud. I would do in private that which I knew my public responsibility demanded.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

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