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“They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.”
C.S. Lewis

“If it’s to be, it’s up to me!”
Brian Tracy

“Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment - an attitude that has never again left me. - Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes, edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp”
Albert Einstein

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”
Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
Albert Einstein

“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.”
C.S. Lewis

“No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
John C. Maxwell

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
John F. Kennedy

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Every heart has its own skeletons.”
Leo Tolstoy

“The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.”
Leo Tolstoy

“My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Friends, loved ones, and even enemies influence us, but that doesn’t mean their comments are relevant to your destiny.”
T.D. Jakes

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