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“you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.”
C.S. Lewis

“The Koran, the revealed word of God, was the closest thing to a miracle in Mohammed’s life. He had not been a poet; he had no gift of words. Yet the verses of the Koran, as he received them and recited them to the faithful, were better than any verses which the professional poets of the tribes could produce. This, to the Arabs, was a miracle. To them the gift of words was the greatest gift, the poet was all-powerful.
Napoleon Hill

“Where there is truth and error there is always compromise. Within some churches there is a movement to reshape the Christian message to make it more acceptable to man.”
Billy Graham

“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.” 
Bruce Lee

“It’s the next opportunity that keeps us motivated.”
Zig Ziglar

“Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act for yourself.”
Napoleon Hill

“Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. ”
Leo Tolstoy

“Instinctively we struck out for dignity first because personal degradation as an inferior human being was even more keenly felt than material privation.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....” 
Martin Luther King Jr

“How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself”
Leo Tolstoy

“The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. Prison desk calendar, written on Robben Island, June 2, 1979” 
Nelson Mandela

“The best posture you can adopt when pursuing your goals is neither to stand nor sit. The best position is to STANDOUT! Everyone may be sitting; but don't sit! Many people may be standing; but don't just stand. When you stand, be outstanding!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.” 
Martin Luther King Jr

“To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.”
Leo Tolstoy

“The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.”
Frank Herbert

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