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“You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.”
― Zig Ziglar

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“Then you should just go take one,” Hawat sneered. “Yes,” the Fremen said. “We took one. We have it hidden where Stilgar can study it for Liet and where Liet can see it for himself if he wishes. But I doubt he’ll want to: the weapon is not a very good one. Poor design for Arrakis.” “You…took one?” Hawat asked. “It was a good fight,” the Fremen said. “We lost only two men and spilled the water from more than a hundred of theirs.” There were Sardaukar at every gun, Hawat thought. This desert madman speaks casually of losing only two men against Sardaukar!”
― Frank Herbert

“When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”
― Ronald Reagan

“I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”
― Ronald Reagan

“If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It becomes somewhat absurd when some claim that the sight of a Bible or a cross causes them so much psychological distress that it impinges upon their freedom. It is important that we learn to be reasonable and tolerant of everyone's beliefs without going to such extremes that we compromise everyone's rights.”
― Ben Carson

“Quitters don’t gain what they have started working on; waiters don’t start what they could have gained. What is common there is failure.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“People can perceive a lot in seven seconds. They can decide that they do not want to hear anything a speaker has to say,”
― John C. Maxwell

“Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”
― Oprah Winfrey

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