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“We are all brothers, but I live on a salary paid me for prosecuting, judging, and condemning the thief or the prostitute whose existence the whole tenor of my life brings about...We are all brothers, but I live on the salary I gain by collecting taxes from needy laborers to be spent on the luxuries of the rich and idle. We are all brothers, but I take a stipend for preaching a false Christian religion, which I do not myself believe in, and which only serves to hinder men from understanding true Christianity.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.”
― Mother Teresa

“A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential”
― John C. Maxwell

“I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. ”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Desire Is Born With Vision”
― Zig Ziglar

“Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly.  'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. Thomas Edison, American inventor”
― George Washington

“close the wounds, and the 22-hour surgical ordeal was over. The Siamese”
― Ben Carson

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“We can look at Joseph’s example and realize through good times and bad, we must stay the course, being diligent and enthusiastic about what God brings. If He brings you to it, we must remember, He will bring you through it as well.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
― Ronald Reagan

“The struggle between life elements is the struggle for the free energy of a system.”
― Frank Herbert

“It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.”
― C.S. Lewis

“So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I will not say that we may not sooner or later be compelled to meet force by force; but the time has not yet come, and if we are true to ourselves, may never come. Do not mistake that the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Therefore let the legions of slavery use bullets; but let us wait patiently till November, and fire ballots at them in return; and by that peaceful policy, I believe we shall ultimately win.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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