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“Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew. ”
― Albert Einstein

“I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room. ”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.”
― Napoleon Hill

“But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

“But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.” 
― Thomas Jefferson

“Your mess can become your ministry if you will have a positive attitude and decide to let everything you go through prepare you for what is ahead.”
― Joyce Meyer

“The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word.” The right word? desire!”
― Napoleon Hill

“‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life as terrible - I really do have to agree!”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I have a dream today” 
― Martin Luther King Jr

“It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.”
― Thomas Jefferson

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