"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."

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"The disciplined rule our world."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If the devil is sending you thoughts of fear, resist him, stop the thoughts."

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"Challenge authority, the authority of your own rational convictions."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"If you are in Christ, then you have the heavenly position of His authority and operate on this earth in His name as someone who is from above."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Your expertise can elevate your impressions to bring you to an entirely new realm."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have the time to prove that 'ours' is correct; nor do 'we' have the time to make you correct as well."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

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"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."

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"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."

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"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."

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"Thought is the parent of the deed."

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"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."

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"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."

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"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."

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