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“He doesn’t appear much, does he—one frightened old fat man too weak to support his own flesh without the help of suspensors.”
Frank Herbert

“It should be recognised as a crime (in reality it is a crime of the worst nature) for any parent to build inferiority complexes in the mind of a child through unnecessary criticism. Employers who understand human nature get the best there is out of people not by criticism but by constructive suggestion. Parents may accomplish the same results with their children. Criticism will plant fear or resentment in the human heart but it will not build love or affection.”
Napoleon Hill

“Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.”
Abraham Lincoln

“The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.”
C.S. Lewis

“I was intrigued by old Frank, with his books and whiskey breath and the hint of hard-earned knowledge behind the hooded eyes.”
Barack Obama

“Facts mean truth, and once we adhere to truth, the law comes to our aid naturally.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he was very stupid, would be as unjust as to say that he had brought his troops to Moscow because he wished to and because he was very clever and a genius”
Leo Tolstoy

“It is impossible to be both selfish and happy”
Joyce Meyer

“When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.” 
Thomas Jefferson

“I have from my experience come to the conclusion that Gita has been composed to teach this one truth which I have explained. We can follow truth only in the measure that we shed our attachment to the ego.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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

“The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”
Barack Obama

“Real love has little to do with gooey emotions and goose bumps; and it has everything to do with the choices we make about the way we treat people.”
Joyce Meyer

“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”
Albert Einstein

“every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing”
Mother Teresa

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