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“A moral cynicism was sapping the strength of our society, half-lies were not only condoned, but regarded as smart. Many had remained untouched by the welter of the holocaust of battle fields, mass bombings, prison camps, the blood, pain, heartbreak and death remained to tally beyond their comprehension." Ghost of Bataan Speaks”
― Abie Abraham

tags: history, ww-ii

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#2

“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual mastery of self, talent, and money. Gold created the get-rich-quick mentality that has been with us ever since, most recently during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.”
― Pete Hamill, Downtown: My Manhattan

tags: history

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#3

“Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: how-to-write

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#4

“For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.”
― John F. Kennedy

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#5

“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, 'See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk.”
― Harry Browne

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#6

“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

tags: philosophy, scary

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#7

“To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

tags: creative-thinking, creativity, inspiration, sociology, writing

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#8

“If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

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#9

“You are not the point. Your ministry is not the point and God has not pushed all his chips in on you, He has not put the kingdom in your hands as though all His hope relies in your ability to perform.”
― Matt Chandler

tags: glory-of-god, ministry, sovereignty-of-god

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#10

“Every Christian who studies history can only grieve over the atrocities that have been committed in the name of God by people who refuse to follow His ways.”
― Berit Kjos, A Twist of Faith

tags: christianity, faith, feminism

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#11

“There's three different kinds of Christian," said Cash. "There's preaching Christians, church-playing Christians, and then there's practicing Christian. I'm trying very hard to be a practicing Christian.”
― Steve Turner

tags: biography, johnny-cash, spiritual

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#12

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational, philosophical, politics, religion, religious

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#13

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”
― Jessamyn West

tags: inspirational, writing

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#14

“How many races have been dehumanized in the name of evolution and scientific race theories? Is a bomb a religious or a scientific invention?”
― Matshona Dhliwayo, Dinner with King Solomon

tags: religion, spirituality

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#15

“Science and religion are both guilty of committing atrocities,” King Solomon continued. “They are not evil in and of themselves, but in the hands of evil men they can be manipulated to produce great destruction.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo, Dinner with King Solomon

tags: religion-spirituality

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#16

“A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: beginnings, bird-quotations, bird-quotes, flower-quotes, forest-quotes, greatness-quotes, guru-quotes, life-lesson-quotes, life-lessons-quotations, life-quotations, life-quote, life-quotes, life-quotes-and-sayings, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, rose-quotes, sage-quotes, seed-quotes, seeds-quotes, small-beginnings, small-beginnings-quotes, success-quotes, wisdom-quotes, wise-quotations, wise-quotes, wise-sayings-quotes, wise-words-quotes

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#17

“The struggles of the past are the gateway to the blessings of the future.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: blessing-quotes, blessings-quotes, faith-quotations, faith-quote, faith-quotes, future-quotations, future-quotes, hope-quotations, hope-quotes, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspirational-quotes-about-life, life-lesson-quotes, life-lessons-quotations, life-lessons-quotes, life-quotations, life-quote, life-quotes, life-quotes-and-sayings, life-quotes-inspirational-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, motivation-quotes, motivational-quotations, motivational-quote, motivational-quote-of-the-day, motivational-quotes, motivational-quotes-for-women, past-quotations, past-quotes, spiritual-quotations, spiritual-quotes, struggle-quotes

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#18

“I don't know who first said it, but this proverb is something I believe: A lion leading a lot of sheep can defeat a sheep leading many lions. The important part is that I must decide when I am a lion and when I must be a sheep. I don't believe you are always one or the other.”
― Yao Ming, YAO: A Life in Two Worlds

tags: biography

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#19

“Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.
Reward those who help you today.
Remember those who help you tomorrow.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: charity-quotes, forgive-quotes, forgiveness-quotes, future-quotations, future-quotes, guru-quotes, help-quotations, help-quotes, helping-others-quotes, helping-quotes, hurt-quotes, life-lesson-quotes, life-lessons-quotations, life-lessons-quotes, life-quotations, life-quote, life-quotes, life-quotes-and-sayings, life-quotes-inspirational-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, mercy-quotes, pardon, past-quotations, past-quotes, remember-quotations, remember-quotes, reward-quotes, sage-quotes, spiritual-quotations, spiritual-quotes, spirituality-quotes, tomorrow-quotes, wisdom-quotations, wisdom-quote, wisdom-quotes, wise-quotations, wise-quotes, wise-sayings-quotes, wise-words-quotes, yesturday-quotes

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#20

“as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!”
― Brenda Jackson, Perfect Timing

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#21

“If you feed a child, you strengthen him for a day; if you educate him, you strengthen him for a lifetime.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: better-the-world, change-the-world-quotes, education-quotes, learn-quotes, learning-quotes, learning-quotes-education-quotes, life-lesson-quotes, life-lessons-quotations, life-lessons-quotes, make-the-world-a-better-place, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, school-quotes, schooling

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#22

“Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in school. For me, that history was "written wrong" and needed to be corrected. My intention was to make them visible so they could be role models for others. To show how each, in his or her own way, dribbled gracefully around that obstacle in the narrow corridor.”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance

tags: history, memoir, nonfiction, sports

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#23

“The person unaware of history is like a rudderless boat just floating out in the middle of the ocean, hostages to the waves and currents.”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance

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#24

“The person who has some awareness of the past knows how to fashion a rudder and which direction land is.”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance

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#25

“When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him”
― Laura Hillenbrand

tags: history-non-fictition

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#26

“We were not interested in making life better for some some people. We wanted everyone to thrive and accomplish their dreams in Los Angeles: gays, straights, blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians, Russians, Armenians, Pacific Islanders, and many others. Even when my detractors couldn't believe that I stood for equality and fairness, I'd always govern with those guiding principles.”
― Richard J. Riordan, The Mayor: How I Turned Around Los Angeles after Riots, an Earthquake and the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial

tags: memoir, politics

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#27

“A seed stores a forest; a mind stores a universe.”
― Matshona T Dhliwayo

tags: forest-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, mind-quotes, motivation-quotes, motivational-quotations, potential-quotes, seed-quotations, seed-quotes, universe-quotes

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#28

“Truth is a lamp in your mind, faith is a lamp in your heart, joy is a lamp in your soul, and love is a lamp in your life.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: faith-quotations, faith-quotes, joy-quotes, love-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, spiritual-quotations, spiritual-quotes, spirituality-quotes, truth-quotations, truth-quotes

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#29

“A team hops on one mind, walks on two, sprints on three, and soars on four.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: ceo-quotes, lead-quotes, leader-quotes, leadership-quotes, success-quotes, team-quotes, teamwork-quotations, teamwork-quotes

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#30

“God loves you so much!" the master said. "How do I know? He gives you enough sense to take your wife's advice.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: god-quotes, husband-quotes, marriage-quotes, marry-quotes, master-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, relationship-quotes, sage-quotes, wife-quotes, wisdom-quotes

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