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“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it and fills it with props and buttresses and planks and scaffolding that he manages to keep the house standing only by making it impossible to live in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.”
― John C. Maxwell

“I learned the importance of the Bible and came to believe with all my heart in its full inspiration. It became a sword in my hand to break open the hearts of men, to direct them to the Lord Jesus Christ.”
― Billy Graham

“Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“No matter what challenge you may be facing, you must remember that while the canvas of your life is painted with daily experiences, behaviors, reactions, and emotions, you’re the one controlling the brush. If I had known this at 21, I could have saved myself a lot of heartache and self-doubt. It would have been a revelation to understand that we are all the artists of our own lives—and that we can use as many colors and brushstrokes as we like.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ”
― C.S. Lewis

“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
― Leo Tolstoy

“[Angels] crisscross the Old and New Testaments, being mentioned directly or indirectly nearly 300 times.”
― Billy Graham

“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”
― Mother Teresa

“Years may wrinkle your skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles your soul.”
― Joyce Meyer

“The old woman was a witch shadow—hair like matted spiderwebs, hooded ’round darkness of features, eyes like glittering jewels.”
― Frank Herbert

“Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Remember then: there is only one time that is important-- Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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