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Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms' Fairy Tales (German: Grimms Märchen).”
Leo Tolstoy

“An armed conflict between nations horrifies us. But the economic war is no better than an armed conflict. This is like a surgical operation. An economic war is prolonged torture. And its ravages are no less terrible than those depicted in the literature on war property so called. We think nothing of the other because we are used to its deadly effects .... The movement against war is sound. I pray for its success. But I cannot help the gnawing fear that the movement will fail if it does not touch the root of all evil-human greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting social standards to new heights.”
Billy Graham

“The only one who can re-create us is the One who created us in the first place. If your watch were out of order, you wouldn’t take it to a blacksmith. If your car needed overhauling, you wouldn’t go to a machine shop. Our spiritual problems can be solved only by the God who created us originally.”
Billy Graham

“Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart."
C.S. Lewis

“If you can't be corrected, you have a problem with pride. If you rebel against authority, if you want to take all the credit and glory to yourself, if you say “I” too often, then you have a problem with pride.
Joyce Meyer

“Schopenhauer’s saying, that “a man can do as he will, but not will as he will,” has been an inspiration to me since my”
Albert Einstein

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.”
C.S. Lewis

“I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.” 
Bill Gates

“Your dreams today are answers to what you are to do, where you are to go and what you have to say in later days of your life.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”
George Washington

“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”
Leo Tolstoy

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