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It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out…
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The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in…
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We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one…
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Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
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Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is…
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A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation…
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Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious…
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To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away…
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Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about…
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It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we…
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Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step…
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In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home…
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This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as…
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They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger?…
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They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and…
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Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of…
— Henry Hazlitt
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They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where…
— Chang-Rae Lee
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Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that…
— Thomas Paine
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The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which…
— Martin Heidegger
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I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.
— Immortal Technique
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Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what…
— S I Hayakawa
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