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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln

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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. – Abraham Lincoln

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God
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Abraham Lincoln
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization. – Abraham Lincoln

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Fellowship
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The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys. – Author Unknown

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal

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I only have yes men around me. Who needs no men? – Mae West

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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. – Blaise Pascal

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Faith is reason grown courageous. – Sherwood Eddy

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The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. – Tony Hillerman

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And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, its an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality. – Margaret Spellings

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We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. – Frank McCourt

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