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"Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days."
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"Use your influence to make impact and help others grow."
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"The pace of a leader determines the pace of his follower."
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"God wants us to be significant, he wants the world to know us that is why He encourages us to have an active civil position in our nations."
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"Your anger against every form of insult and oppression must be out of love."
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"I don't believe that young people today can live clean, pure lives without the help of God. The peer pressure is too great and the temptations they see in the movies and on television, and what they hear in their music is too much. Only Christ can give them the power to say no."
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"The common goal of leaders is to increase the value and productivity of people. Leaders inspire others to do better than they would have done when not inspired."
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"A real pastor - a good shepherd - is always concerned about the personal development of every individual person in his church."
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"A leader is solution oriented and a philosopher is problem oriented."
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"Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them."
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"It is unfortunate that many people today cannot appreciate the value that every man possesses."
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"And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War."
War
"I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry."
Poetry
"I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something."
Success
"I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper."
Writing
"I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe."
People
"Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister."
Time
"I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose."
Poetry
"My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels."
Success
"Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves."
Inspirational
"When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking."
Society
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