"An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust."

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"An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust."

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"There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Vision is success in the future."

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"History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty from the ashes of world chaos. A new world is being born. A new social order will emerge when Christ comes back. A fabulous future is on the way."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back."

David Levithan, American Author

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"God will ignite all that was extinct in your life."

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"Oh, the days will be tough that I promise is true but right around the corner the dream will be Infront of you."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"We need to know that a dark night is always followed by a nice morning."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Gloom and anguish is the description of the lives of those who live in darkness."

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"Hope is a very unruly emotion."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"We don't just believe that God is real, but in tough circumstances we believe that he knows the way out."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."

Leadership

"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

Thought

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

Military

"Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls."

History

"How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII."

Effort

"I will only mention that the independent power of words to affect the writing of history is a thing to be watched out for. They have an almost frightening autonomous power to produce in the mind of the reader an image or idea that was not in the mind of the writer. Obviously they operate this way in all forms of writing, but history is particularly sensitive because one has a duty to be accurate, and careless use of words can leave a false impression one had not intended."

Writing

"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."

Food

"The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost."

Corruption

"To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution."

Power

"The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country."

Governance