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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
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Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
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Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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