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Kindness is more persuasive than force.

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

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I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

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To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

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This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

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To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

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Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your shield against tyranny. For when we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

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Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

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Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

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