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“One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.” ―
Leo Tolstoy

“[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects (Works, Vol. iv, p. 327).”
Thomas Jefferson

“A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.”
Frank Herbert

“No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.”
Joel Osteen

“God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.”
Thomas Jefferson

“The most intense joy, lies not in the having,  but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays
C.S. Lewis

“With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Courage is a habit that is learned by acting courageously whenever the quality of courage is required.”
Brian Tracy

“The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”
Oprah Winfrey

“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
Bill Gates

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

“governments don't produce economic growth people do.”
Ronald Reagan

“In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.”
C.S. Lewis

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