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“Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”
Abraham Lincoln

“A Jeff Danziger cartoon shows a company president announcing to his staff, “Gentlemen, this year the trick is honesty.” From one side of the conference table, a vice president gasps, “Brilliant.” Across the table, another VP mutters, “But so risky.”
John C. Maxwell

“Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the "time to be right" to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be "just right.”
Napoleon Hill

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

“As long as the struggle was down in Alabama and Mississippi, they could look afar and think about it and say how terrible people are. When they discovered brotherhood had to be a reality in Chicago and that brotherhood extended to next door, then those latent hostilities came out.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.” 
Napoleon Hill

“In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.”
Nelson Mandela

“Things don't just happen. They are made to happen.”
John F. Kennedy

“Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more than all the land.”
C.S. Lewis

“I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.”
C.S. Lewis

“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.”
C.S. Lewis

“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.”
Abraham Lincoln

“The iron may not be hot early if you want to wait for it to get heated; it will get hot if you strike it hardly! Strike it now!”
Israelmore Ayivor

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