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To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night - brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Manners from Heaven: A Divine Guide to Good Behaviour (1984) ch. 7 -
Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
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Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
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What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.
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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
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When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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Whether you voted for him or not, whether you supported the new leaders of Congress or not, they're our president, they're our Congress, they need our prayers, they need our support.
Chicago Tribune, published November 22, 2008 -
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
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