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Newspapers of the future, to be conducted successfully, must be divorced from special privilege and relieved from the subsidy of advertising. They must cease to be organs of propaganda for the interests which patronize their advertising columns. The type of newspaper which publishes scandal and lewd pictures will eventually go the way of all forces which debauch the human mind. These
— Napoleon Hill
Boaz is not diminished, marginalized, or feminized in the slightest by being outnumbered and influenced by Ruth and Naomi. As a matter of fact, he only grows stronger himself through his collaborations with them.
— Carolyn Custis James
By jiminy, we do own the only newspaper in town. There must be some way we can use it to do some good there. - Mr. Wallace
— Catherine Marshall
You know how a gardenia's petals reveal any telltale fingermarks by turning brown," the preacher said. "Your lives are like that. Purity is like that . . . Young people, don't give anything to the world to destroy. Don't be ashamed of high ideals, dreams, and beautiful thoughts.
— Catherine Marshall
These young people need to see that there's something bigger out there than what they're looking at everyday or seeing in the news or on social media. They need men and women to come into their lives who will give them a bigger vision of the world, of life, of opportunity, of what they can become rather than what they think they are limited to you.
— Tony Evans
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.
— Glenn Beck
The dead should not rule the living.
— Thomas Jefferson
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
Your idea of me is fabricated with materials you have borrowed from other people and from yourself. What you think of me depends on what you think of yourself. Perhaps you create your idea of me out of material that you would like to eliminate from your own idea of yourself. Perhaps your idea of me is a reflection of what other people think of you. Or perhaps what you think of me is simply what you think I think of you.
— Thomas Merton
I must become convinced and penetrated by the realization that without my love for them they may perhaps not achieve the things God has willed for them. My
— Thomas Merton
must become convinced and penetrated by the realization that without my love for them they may perhaps not achieve the things God has willed for them.
— Thomas Merton