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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
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People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the whites only signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
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