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Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don’t allow them to define you. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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I come from a family of great readers and storytellers. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it. ↗

— Tanith Lee

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Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

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You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve. ↗

— King Edward VIII

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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

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As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence. ↗

— John Strachan

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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. ↗

— William Glasser

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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively. ↗

— Socrates

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