"Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor."

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Ogden Nash

#Adversity Quotes #Prepared Quotes #Oppressed Quotes

“I wouldn't know what to do on a date. I don't have the time. To make a relationship work, I'd have to give something up, and I'm not so sure I'm willing to do that.”
“No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.”

Source : Brendon Burchard (2012). “The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
“Out of many shared years. One life.”

Source : Richard Clarke Cabot (1915). “Prescriptions, to be Taken Immediately, to be Taken for Life: A Collection of Extracts from Dr. Richard C. Cabot's "What Men Live By," Selected by Edith Motter Lamb”
“Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'”
“Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.”
“But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.”
“The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.”
“As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.”

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