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“Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.”
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:Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
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“Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
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Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
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