"We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others."

Camus, Albert on fallibility
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"Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face."

Camus, Albert on faces
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"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

Camus, Albert on action
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"America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies."

Cooper, James F. on prejudice   

"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."

Johnson, Samuel on curiosity
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"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."

Johnson, Samuel on curiosity
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"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."

Alinsky, Saul on power
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"The price of power is responsibility for the public good."

Aldrich, Withrop on power
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"A friend in power is a friend lost."

Adams, Henry Brooks on power
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Acton, Lord on power
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"The power to do good is also the power to do harm."

Friedman, Milton on power
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"Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared."

Korda, Michael on luck
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"Self-trust is the essence of heroism."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"Self-trust is the first secret to success."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-trust
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"It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you."

Chapman, John Jay on prejudice   

"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on power
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"Power tires only those who do not have it."

Andreotti, Giulio on power
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"Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery."

Hugo, Victor on curiosity
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"Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure."

Hobbes, Thomas on curiosity
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"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

Hobbes, Thomas on curiosity
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity."

Einstein, Albert on curiosity
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"Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts."

Day, Clarence on curiosity   

"Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will."

Cooke, Alistair on curiosity
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"It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent."

Cicero, Marcus T. on curiosity   

"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity."

Burke, Edmund on curiosity   

"Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand."

Bible on curiosity   

"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."

Sophocles on action
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"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."

Sophocles on wisdom   

"Truth is always the strongest argument."

Sophocles on truth
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"There is no success without hardship."

Sophocles on success
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"Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected."

Sophocles on possibilities
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"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."

Sophocles on kindness
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"Kindness gives birth to kindness."

Sophocles on kindness
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"To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task."

Sophocles on deeds and good deeds
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"Grief is light that is capable of counsel."

Proverb on grief   

"Give light and people will find their own way."

Unknown, Source on giving   

"What is to give light must endure the burning."

Frankl, Viktor E. on adversity
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"Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul."

Hugo, Victor on nations   

"If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded."

Socrates on debate   

"Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men."

Socrates on education
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