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  • Carl Sagan If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • John Bunyan If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Joseph Addison If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Jean Paul Getty If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Virginia Woolf If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Epictetus If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Buddha If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Sun Tzu If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Peter Cochrane 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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  • Harold S. Geneen In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Bunyan In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Carl Sandburg In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Robert Frost In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Eric Hoffer Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Joseph Addison Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Rose Kennedy It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
    Rose Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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