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“There exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college] by the friends of William and Mary, which is not strong. The most restive is that of the priests of the different religious sects, who dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of day-light; and scowl on it the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies on which they live. In this the Presbyterian clergy take the lead. The tocsin is sounded in all their pulpits, and the first alarm denounced is against the particular creed of Doctr. Cooper; and as impudently denounced as if they really knew what it is.
― Thomas Jefferson

“It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.”
― Napoleon Hill

“We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning”
― Zig Ziglar

“Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.”
― Napoleon Hill

“There was something to what he said, for it was true that the people I met on the job were generally much older than me, with a set of concerns and demands that created barriers to friendship. When I wasn’t working, the weekends would usually find me alone in an empty apartment, making do with the company of books. I”
― Barack Obama

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association--the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“El nacionalismo es una enfermedad infantil. Es el sarampion de la humanidad.”
― Albert Einstein

“Great thinking comes from a great mind”
― Nelson Mandela

“Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Oh juventud nunca dejes de pensar...”
― Albert Einstein

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