"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness"

Seneca on kindness
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"We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on oneness   

"America is addicted to wars of distraction."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on war
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"Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!"

Burns, Robert on silence
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"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little."

Epicurus on abundance
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"Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith."

Wise, Stephen S. on vision
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"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."

Bryant, William C. on truth
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"It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows."

Saying on speakers and speaking
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"When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other."

Gaulle, Charles De on anger
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"What is possible is our highest duty."

Mclaren, William E. on duty   

"It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues."

Swift, Jonathan on virtue   

"Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small."

Saying on knowledge   

"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on experience
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"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern."

Johnson, Samuel on alcohol and alcoholism
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"One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world."

Proverb, Jewish on family
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"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."

Byron, Lord on contentment   

"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit."

Bacon, Francis on conceit
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"Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary."

Harkness, Richard on committees and meetings   

"I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts."

Mann, Horace on action
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"The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away."

Cowper, William on hope
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"Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey."

Noble, Alex on success
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"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."

Disraeli, Benjamin on criticism
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"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on farming and farmers
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"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned."

Weldon, Fay on age and aging
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"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."

Vries, Peter De on ecology
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"Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do."

Morgan, John Pierpont on business   

"God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man."

Franklin, Benjamin on law and lawyers
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"The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected."

Rogers, Will on politics
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"Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely."

Basta on women
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"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."

Eliot, George on evil
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"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."

Jones, Franklin P. on punctuality   

"DATO'S LAW. Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification."

Dato, Robert on wish and wishing   

"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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"Rule # 1 -- Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules."

Nordstrom Employee Manual on judgment and judges   

"In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant."

Trilling, Lionel on reality   

"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."

Fromm, Erich on death
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"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."

Edwards, Tryon on self-improvement
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"The hottest love has the coldest end."

Socrates on love
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