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The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially. — Jerome K. Jerome
When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most. — Robert Browning
Compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good… — Dalai Lama
We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may… — Ed Begley, Jr.
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the… — Martin Sheen
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on. — George Soros
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it. — Finley Peter Dunne
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the… — Victor Hugo
Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. — Vincent de Paul
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. — Jimmy Carter
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as… — Thomas Jefferson
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon… — Henry David Thoreau
Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all. — Barack Obama
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that… — Susan Sontag
I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about… — Jodie Foster
I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our personal lives and… — Mary Kay Ash
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame. — Rod Steiger
I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the… — Charles Dickens
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. — D. H. Lawrence
My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks. — Joan Rivers
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures… — Anne Lamott
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. — Jean Paul
I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye. — Harry S. Truman
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. — George Santayana
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo

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