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“It is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without cloaths or blankets.”
― George Washington

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it and fills it with props and buttresses and planks and scaffolding that he manages to keep the house standing only by making it impossible to live in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.”
― C.S. Lewis

“our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right; that it tends also to corrupt the principles of that very religion it is meant to encourage,”
― Thomas Jefferson

“the largest locomotive in the world can be held in its tracks while standing still simply by placing a single one-inch block of wood in front of each of the eight drive wheels. The same locomotive moving at 100 miles per hour can crash through a wall of steel-reinforced concrete five feet thick.
― Zig Ziglar

“One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
― Bruce Lee

“people who do not forgive are hurting themselves much more than they’re hurting others.”
― John C. Maxwell

“You are now old enough to know how very important to your future life will be the manner in which you employ your present time”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The essential question is not, "How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you?”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Never be discouraged. The fact that you will be a winner at the first attempt is unclear. You don’t get master’s degree after attending school on the first day. You got to endure till you get there.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The Secret “Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.”
― Joel Osteen

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“Remember that success is just 15 percent product knowledge and it’s 85 percent people knowledge.”
― John C. Maxwell

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