European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.

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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

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I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way.

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Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.

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Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. ― Patricia Briggs

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Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

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The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

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Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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People can put you down, and they will but Allah will never abandon you, so long as you don’t.

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