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Julian Weber Gordon
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
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Jules Renard
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
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Publilius Syrus
It is better to learn late than never.
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Danish proverb
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
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Lavina Christensen Fugal
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.
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Groucho Marx, A Day at the Races - 1936
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
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Martin Tupper
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
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Cicero
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place.
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Hellen Keller
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
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John Steinbeck
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Aretha Franklin
It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the 92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
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Patricia Roberts Harris
Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker ... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
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