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  • #1
    Pope John Paul II
    “Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.”
    Pope John Paul II

  • #2
    John C. Maxwell
    “Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”
    John C. Maxwell

  • #3
    Tiffany Madison
    “If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?”
    Tiffany Madison, Black and White

  • #4
    “The 'difference' = What you say you'll do - what you actually do”
    George Akomas Jr

  • #5
    Jacob Bronowski
    “The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.”
    Jacob Bronowski

  • #6
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #7
    Ayn Rand
    “People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
    Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

  • #8
    Dorothy Parker
    “By the time you swear you're his,
    Shivering and sighing.
    And he vows his passion is,
    Infinite, undying.
    Lady make note of this --
    One of you is lying.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #9
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #10
    Barbara Bush
    “Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.”
    Barbara Bush

  • #11
    “The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.”
    Cheryl Hughes

  • #12
    Abraham Lincoln
    “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #13
    Chuck Klosterman
    “Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.”
    Chuck Klosterman

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Beatrix Potter
    “Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”
    Beatrix Potter

  • #17
    Shane Claiborne
    “Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the po0r rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.”
    Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

  • #18
    Shane Claiborne
    “Patting mother Theresa on the back, someone said to her: ‘i wouldn’t do what you do for a million dollars.’ She said with a grin: ‘me neither.”
    Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

  • #19
    William S. Burroughs
    “Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.”
    William S. Burroughs

  • #20
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.”
    Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fury

  • #21
    Camron Wright
    “Believing isnot enough, Sang Ly. If you want to resurrect hope, doing is the most important. Can you do these things?”
    Camron Wright, The Rent Collector

  • #22
    Gregory of Nazianzus
    “Grace is given not to them who speak [their faith] but to those who live their faith.”
    St. Gregory the Theologian

  • #23
    Allan Dare Pearce
    “I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer with a racist attitude. It is just more honest.”
    Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April

  • #24
    Mother Teresa
    “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #25
    Mother Teresa
    “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #26
    Mother Teresa
    “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #27
    Mother Teresa
    “A life not lived for others is not a life.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #28
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #30
    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #31
    Baltasar Gracián
    “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
    Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle



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