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William Punshon
Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right
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Andre Gide
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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Marian Anderson
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
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Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
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Unknown
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Konrad Lorenz
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
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Mark Twain
Everything has its limit--iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Thomas Tusser
At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.
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Stephen Jay Gould
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
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Robert Hall
The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.
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Althea Gibson
I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
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