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“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving”
― Napoleon Hill

“Nobody is better than you and remember, you are better than nobody.
― Thomas Jefferson

“War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. Our attitude towards the fearful necessity of war ought to be stern. It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war and not a game. Otherwise, war is a favourite pastime of the idle and frivolous...”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Por lo general, el mayor enemigo para nuestro éxito en el futuro es nuestro éxito en el pasado.”
― Rick Warren

“Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.”
― Zig Ziglar

“the weak are always apt to be revengeful.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Asking for something is easy… being responsible for it is the part that develops character.” 
― Joyce Meyer

“Too often we use petty little petitions, oratorical exercises, or the words of others rather than the cries of our inmost being. When you pray, pray!”
― Billy Graham

“Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err.  -Baron Vladimir”
― Frank Herbert

“When it comes to seeing opportunities in the midst of unhopeful situations, the positive brain, (not the pair of eyes) is the sense organ for the sight.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

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