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“If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”
Thomas Jefferson

“The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it.”
John C. Maxwell

“He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.”
C.S. Lewis

“Life did not stop, and one had to live.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Real courage is being afraid but doing it anyway.”
Oprah Winfrey

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
John F. Kennedy

“Sometimes what you love to do could even make many people to hate you. You may go through non-formal torments, character assassinations, verbal assaults and societal rejections, but if you are convinced about your love for what you are doing, you will never give up.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
John C. Maxwell

“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen”—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —FROM “THE WISDOM OF MUAD’DIB” BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN”
Frank Herbert

“Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life ask yourself What is my truest intention Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.”
Oprah Winfrey

“A sign of a great team leader is the proper placement of people.”
John C. Maxwell

“Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never return.”
Nelson Mandela

“One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.”
Nelson Mandela

“It was all so strange, so unlike what he had been looking forward to.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...”
Abraham Lincoln

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