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"The false starts and futilities of the past years proved themselves to be groundwork, foundations, laid in the dark but well laid."
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"The worth of a society is genuine if established on cardinal law of kingdom - love."
"The invisible things are the value system."
"Each day should be founded on a purpose and work in harmony with the core reason for your life."
"Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy."
"Anything built on doubt is rocky. Anything built on fear is shaky. Anything built on hate is unsteady. Anything built on wisdom is trustworthy. Anything built on faith is sturdy. Anything built on love is mighty."
"If things are built on a poor foundation, there is absolutely nothing there."
"The foundation upon which any society is built is called values."
"It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree's greatest strength lies."
"A tree is only as good as the seed it is stems from."
"Everything God created was created in a seed form, small and miniature."
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"What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered."
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"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul."
"He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it."
"The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us."
"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words."
"He laid his hands on her head, pushing back the hood. He began to speak. His voice was soft, and the words were in no tongue she had ever heard. The sound of them came into her heart like rain falling. She grew still to listen."
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