Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve.

Octavia E. Butler
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  1. Beware:Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

  2. All that you touch You Change.All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthis Change.Godis Change.

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  4. In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

  5. There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.

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