I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. - Andrew Carnegie

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Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy.

Andrew Carnegie

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

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You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

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There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.

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Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

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The first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.

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The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

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Louis Farrakhan

Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy.

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Ray Comfort

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

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John Stuart Mill

The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.

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Anne Stuart

He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. "I love you, Chloe," he said. "Which is the most dangerous thing I could do.

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