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Dr. William Claire Menninger
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Martin Niemoeller
First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
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Abraham Lincoln
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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William Pickens
Living together is an art.
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Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.
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Homer
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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B. J. Gupta
There is no logical answer to the question ' Why be moral'. Religions provide practical answers to the question.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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David P Gardner
Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
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Susan Sontag
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Thomas Edison
There is no substitute for hard work.
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