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“Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.”
“What liberated our souls, we live to serve.”
“Liberation of sacred souls connects to specific service.”
“When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of ap...”
“I used to fight back the inner resistance within me before when for a while I thought this keeps me from living the life I was born to enjoy. But then I realized that this "madness" inside me is no...”
“As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.”
“The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.”
“One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.”
“Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.”
“He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.”
“I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams”
“The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal”
“The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valor.”
“Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.”
“He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.”
“What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?”
“I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie”
“He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.”
“People need self-respect, that self respect must be earned it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.”
“Im fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice concerning injustice”
