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“See the bigger picture of yours and refuse the passport size creature that people think you are! Your nature is large; go for it. Feel free to wake up and print your bigger picture!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.”
― C.S. Lewis

“When the examination was over, the doctor looked at his watch, and then Praskovya Fyodorovna informed Ivan Ilyich that it must of course be as he liked, but she had sent today for a celebrated doctor, and that he would examine him, and have a consultation with Mihail Danilovich (that was the name of his regular doctor). 'Don't oppose it now, please. This I'm doing entirely for my own sake,' she said ironically, meaning it to be understood that she was doing it all for his sake, and was only saying this to give him no right to refuse her request. He lay silent, knitting his brows. He felt that he was hemmed in by such a tangle of falsity that it was hard to disentangle anything from it. Everything she did for him was entirely for her own sake, and she told him she was doing for her own sake what she actually was doing for her own sake as something so incredible that he would take it as meaning the opposite.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"
― Leo Tolstoy

“Keep away from people who always try to stop you from sharing your opinions with the entire world. Don't listen to people who mock you because you talked about who you want to be! Exposed yourself!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“(One sign of possible overtraining is a lack of a pump during your workouts.)”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say ‘no’ when I ask them to buy insurance.”
― Napoleon Hill

What did that show? It showed that he had lived well, but thought badly.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Many countries of the world, I said, had constitutions, but in almost every case they were documents in which governments told their people what they could do. The United States had a constitution, I said, that was different from all the others because in it the people tell their government what it can do. Its three most important words are “We the people,” its most important principle, freedom.” 
― Ronald Reagan

“He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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