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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear”
C.S. Lewis

“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.”
Napoleon Hill

“the world was shrinking, sympathies changing;”
Barack Obama

“It doesn’t matter what your age is, God will use you if you will begin to act and think like a servant.”
Rick Warren

“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Leo Tolstoy

“We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them”
Leo Tolstoy

“Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.” 
Martin Luther King Jr

“And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
Martin Luther King Jr

“Coach John Wooden would not have asked, “Why is it so difficult to realize that others are more likely to listen to us if first we listen to them?”
John C. Maxwell

“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”
John F. Kennedy

“Clarity repositions you to quit nice activities that take you nowhere in order to pursue risky tasks that take you somewhere.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.”
Albert Einstein

“Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell”
Oprah Winfrey

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