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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
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A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
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Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
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All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Do not write so that you can be understood, write so that you cannot be misunderstood.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
Source: As quoted in "Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography", Mays constantly recited to his students this anonymous poem. -
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
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: One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.
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