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“For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.”
C.S. Lewis

“The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.”
Mother Teresa

“The probable accumulation of the surpluses of revenue beyond what can be applied to the payment of the public debt... merits the consideration of Congress. Shall it lie unproductive in the public vaults?...Or shall it rather be appropriated to the improvements of roads, canals, rivers, education, and other great foundations of prosperity and union”
Thomas Jefferson

“Do you have any idea who you have the capacity to become? If you were not bound by the confines of your mind, who might you become?”
T.D. Jakes

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
Nelson Mandela

“It’s awkward to wake up one day to see the trumpet working hard to lead in the shoes of the microphone. You can only lead where you can function better!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“The Bible teaches that man can undergo a radical spiritual and moral change that is brought about by God Himself.”
Billy Graham

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
Bruce Lee

“Don’t settle for poor performers. Keep in mind that one great person will always out-produce and out-perform two mediocre people.”
John C. Maxwell

“The essential question is not, "How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you?”
Oprah Winfrey

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.”
Jim Stovall

“As children of God, one of the privileges we have is believing the impossible.”
Joyce Meyer

“President Abraham Lincoln said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
John C. Maxwell

“I have said that she had no face; but that meant she had a thousand faces”
C.S. Lewis

“And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.”
C.S. Lewis

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