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For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. ↗

— Martin Luther

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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. ↗

— Martin Luther

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The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. ↗

— David Lynch

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It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it. ↗

— Arthur Lydiard

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