Quotes 241 till 260 of 8429.
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
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If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
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If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 222 -
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
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Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
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In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
St. John of the Cross
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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
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It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
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Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
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