"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised
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"What you allow, is what you teach...."

maven101 on behavior
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"I shed a tear today. Silenty, I felt it fall. You caught it, shared it, held it, felt it, then suddenly it wasn't so big after all."

Tindall, Marge on tears
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"No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does."

Brookner, Anita on confession
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"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

Wilde, Oscar on blame
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"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others."

Shula, Don on responsibility
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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

Wooden, John on ability
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"What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you."

Forbes, B. C. on courage   

"Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert."

Forbes, B. C. on work
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"Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious."

Forbes, B. C. on suspicion
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"Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living."

Forbes, B. C. on business
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"Real riches are the riches possessed inside."

Forbes, B. C. on riches   

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

Forbes, B. C. on perseverance
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"Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent."

Forbes, B. C. on patience
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"Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter."

Forbes, B. C. on opportunity
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"A smile on the face is a sign that the heart is at home."

Unknown, Source on smile
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"A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams."

Unknown, Source on dream
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"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."

Bloom, Allan on parents and parenting
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"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."

Bloom, Allan on reason
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"As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead."

Bloom, Allan on tradition
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"As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?"

Johnson, Lyndon B. on neighbors   

"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on leadership
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"Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on knowledge
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"The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on invention and inventor
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"A man without a vote is man without protection."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on government
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"The noblest search is the search for excellence."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on excellence
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"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part."

Bloom, Allan on culture   

"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."

Bloom, Allan on colleges and universities
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"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is."

Bloom, Allan on books - reading
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"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."

Bloom, Allan on teacher
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"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."

Rowland, Helen on home
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"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."

Proverb, Arabian on hope
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on hope
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"I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t."

Unknown, Source on romance and romanticism
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"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

Burroughs, John on age and aging
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"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours."

Wordsworth, William on world
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"The world is in your hands, now use it."

Collins, Phil on world
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"I tell you one thing -- if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own."

Devi, Sri Sarada on world
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"I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own."

Dylan, Bob on world
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"Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?"

Ehrenreich, Barbara on world
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