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The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#expense #first #forehead #generals #good

The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#budget #cuts #detriment #does #domestic

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#asking #better #dig #digging #else

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#create #encounter #literature #minds #moments

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#around #athlete #businessman #get #getting

Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart! ↗

— Torquato Tasso

#heart #love #love is #person #their

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#christian #christian home #fact #home #i

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#death #looking #people #scared #something

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#concerns #god #how #over #questions

When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#christ #come #doubt #either #i