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“How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?”
― Frank Herbert

“Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.”
― Rick Warren

“There was something to what he said, for it was true that the people I met on the job were generally much older than me, with a set of concerns and demands that created barriers to friendship. When I wasn’t working, the weekends would usually find me alone in an empty apartment, making do with the company of books. I”
― Barack Obama

“Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing... Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
― Bruce Lee

“I must ask what it is you want of me?" "What can I want? All I can want is that you should not desert me, as you think of doing," she said, understanding all he had not uttered. "But that I don't want; that's secondary. I want love, and there is none. So then all is over.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“The devil will tremble when you pray.”
― Billy Graham

“In an ideal world, both parties would desire to uphold the Constitution,”
― Ben Carson

“All achievers had plans that they clearly listed or outlined and run to their fulfillment. If you want to make it as they did, you have to make a plan that defines your purpose; you must write out and clearly define who you are and who you want to be, what you have to do to be that person and how it will be done.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“One of the Christian’s responsibilities in following Christ is to have a new attitude toward work. So many young people want Christ without responsibility . . . whatever work a Christian does . . . he should do his best.”
― Billy Graham

“When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death”
― Leo Tolstoy

“At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the pleasures we see. But all the pages of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so. Someday, God willing, we shall get “in”… We will put on glory… that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch. We do not want to merely “see” beauty -- though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words–to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew. ”
― Albert Einstein

“I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“Keep your eyes and ears wide open— and your mouth closed, if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision.”
― Napoleon Hill

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