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“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

“The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and not even the pests in the forest are aware. The baobab tree falls and the whole forest looks empty! Such is human life!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“Stop the blame game; you can't win it! All fans of blame are defeated in every way... Don't join them!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“Ivan Ilych had been a colleague of the gentlemen present and was liked by them all. He had been ill for some weeks with an illness said to be incurable. His post had been kept open for him, but there had been conjectures that in case of his death Alexeev might receive his appointment, and that either Vinnikov or Shtabel would succeed Alexeev. So on receiving the news of Ivan Ilych's death the first thought of each of the gentlemen in that private room was of the changes and promotions it might occasion among themselves or their acquaintances.”
Leo Tolstoy

“To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.”
Billy Graham

“When a man, whether he is a leader or follower, admits that he is “too busy” to change his plans, or to give attention to any emergency, he admits his inefficiency. The successful leader must be the master of all details connected with his position.”
Napoleon Hill

“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.”
Abraham Lincoln

“But it was not only by this feeling, as Varvara thought, that he was guided. Mingling with his pride, with his need always to be first, was another motive, at which Varvara did not guess - a truly religious urge. His disillusionment in Mary (his betrothed), whom he had imagined such a saint, his feeling of outrage was so cruel that he sank into despair; and despair led him - whither? To God, to the faith of his childhood, which had never lost its hold upon him.
Leo Tolstoy

“Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.”
C.S. Lewis

“It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.”
Mother Teresa

“It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.”
Nelson Mandela

“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
Ronald Reagan

“Managers work with processes—leaders work with people.”
John C. Maxwell

“Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?”
Zig Ziglar

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