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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
Spring

"Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live."

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up."

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Ramana Maharshi Spiritual Teacher
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"Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth."

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."

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