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“The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures; for tho' their people have very few slaves themselves yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.”
Leo Tolstoy

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

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
Abraham Lincoln

“‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.”
Billy Graham

It may interest you to know that Marconi’s “friends” had him taken into custody, and examined in a psychopathic hospital, when he announced he had discovered a principle through which he could send messages through the air, without the aid of wires, or other direct physical means of communication. The dreamers of today fare better. The world has become accustomed to new discoveries. Nay, it has shown a willingness to reward the dreamer who gives the world a new idea.
Napoleon Hill

“what is possible for one is possible for all,”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.”
John C. Maxwell

“In the world in which we live, we give most attention to satisfying the appetites of the body and practically none to the soul . . . We become fat physically and materially, while spiritually we are lean, weak, and anemic.”
Billy Graham

“You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.”
Brian Tracy

“It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.”
Albert Einstein

“People often say that MOTIVATION does not last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.”
Zig Ziglar

“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

“Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write.”
Billy Graham

“Now one often saw only her face and body, while her soul was not seen at all.”
Leo Tolstoy

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