Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria Marquis Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. -Margaret Thatcher.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as read more
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.
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When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me. -John Wesley.
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The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. -Gandhi.
The more you know, the less you need to show. -Anonymous.
The more you know, the less you need to show. -Anonymous.
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.
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It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. -Sydney J. Harris.
