"No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them."

Wiesel, Elie on racism
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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others."

Gogh, Vincent Van on love
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"If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself."

Neilen, A. on kindness   

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

Mother Teresa on kindness
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"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve."

Joubert, Joseph on kindness
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"The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed."

Alan, Robert on kindness
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

Graham, Billy on jesus christ
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"Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do."

Maxwell, John C. on policy
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"YOU WILL ONLY BECOME WHAT YOU ARE BECOMING RIGHT NOW. Though you cannot go back and make a brand new start, my friend, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end. "

Maxwell, John C. on art
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"I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."

Darrow, Clarence on ignorance
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"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Disraeli, Benjamin on ignorance
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"How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity."

Brown, Olympia on christians and christianity   

"No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race."

Faulkner, William on christians and christianity   

"Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America."

King, Florence on christians and christianity
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"There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on christians and christianity   

"A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime."

Poe, Edgar Allan on christians and christianity   

"The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last."

Shaw, George Bernard on christians and christianity   

"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."

Allen, Fred A. on christians and christianity
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"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."

Jefferson, Thomas on greed
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"Avarice is the sphincter of the heart."

Green, Matthew on greed   

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Lincoln, Abraham on power
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"There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded."

Lincoln, Abraham on judgment and judges
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"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."

Lincoln, Abraham on ancestry
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"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better."

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Lincoln, Abraham on life
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"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses."

Baldwin, James on belief
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"When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?"

Frank, Borman on peace
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"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on peace
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"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men."

Elk, Black on peace
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"They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]"

Bible on peace
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"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."

Proust, Marcel on death
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"I fear explanations explanatory of things explained."

Lincoln, Abraham on ambiguity
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"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

Camus, Albert on respectability
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"Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Bierce, Ambrose on anger
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