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Confucius
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
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Henry James
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be
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Rabbi Julius Gordon
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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Socrates
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
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Jennifer Tilly
Don't point out your flaws, because the world is not as sympathetic and nurturing as you think.
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Miguel de Cervantes
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
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Quentin Crisp
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Benjamin Franklin
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts.
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Eric Hoffer
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.
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