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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.
Source: Speech Releigh, 17-09-1960 -
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
― Franklin Pierce Adams
American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960) -
Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
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Energy and persistence alter all things.
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Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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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 man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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