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LEVI WOODBURY C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON If you are seeking for perfection then you must spend time as much as you can, It will be worthless ... ASHOK SINGH CHAUHAN XUN KUANG EDMUND WHITE ALBERT EINSTEIN CRISS JAMI ERALDO BANOVAC It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sc... EDWARD THORNDIKE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My ambition is peace and perfection. DEFOREST KELLEY LIU XIAOBO Give a human being power, and he will think that he can control the whole world! This is the true ro... PHILIP T. M. ALBERT EINSTEIN JANE AUSTEN EDMUND BURKE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT EDMUND BURKE Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism an... JONATHAN POWELL SAMUEL ADAMS IMMANUEL KANT Perspective shifted on why it must 'hurt to heal', and a series of questions kept coming to mind. I ... JENNIFER SODINI NOAH WEBSTER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE MIROSLAV VOLF HENRY DAVID THOREAU HENRY DAVID THOREAU SAM RAYBURN DEREK LANDY THOMAS HOBBES THOMAS HOBBES WILLIAM CRAWFORD GORGAS GEORGE MACDONALD GEORGE MACDONALD WILLIAM BLAKE LADY GAGA KILROY J. OLDSTER Nelson Mandela is a hero to all people who value freedom and dignity and justice. President Mandela'... JACK WILSON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ultimately, it will be much faster than it is now. JOERG APPENZELLER ALAN MOORE Whether you feel that's good or bad thing, it will have a huge impact on the town for years and prob... DONNA JAMES ROBERT A. HEINLEIN JEAN PAUL RICHTER Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much abo... YITZHAK SHAMIR It is neither realistic nor desirable to round up and deport 11 million people, but the Specter prop... ANGELA KELLEY There is nothing more inspiring than seeing a spider working her web, her craft, many times a day, w... SUNIL KHEMANEY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ANNE BISHOP JOHN DONNE FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE JAMES ALLEN So much good will come from this, and good will come from this because of the extraordinary compassi... JOE RILEY But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free ... JOHN H. REAGAN We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is rem... JOHN P. KOTTER It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to al... BALTASAR GRACIAN It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to al... BALTASAR GRACIÁN It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to al... BALTASAR GRACIAN TERRY GOODKIND Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment... AMOS WILSON And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I. BIBLE SUNDAY ADELAJA SUNDAY ADELAJA Emergencies come and go, but we are now in an acute phase of a chronic problem and the effects of th... JAMES MORRIS GEORGE W. BUSH SAMUEL JOHNSON FRANCES BEINECKE V. S. NAIPAUL
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benev... 
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benev... 
Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason t... 
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ... 
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at... 
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ... 
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expe... 
The Johnstown flood was not an act of God or nature. It was brought by human failure, human shortsig... 
In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now livi... 
Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to ... 
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to cont... 
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to con... 
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it lov... 
Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control. 
It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses o... 
We are at war - undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed - but war nevertheless.... 
There was never any more inception than there is now,
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It t... 
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, t... 
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Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. 
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It is absolutely certain that we must act to protect nature much more efficiently than ever before. ... 
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tenden... 
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To ki... 
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon ... 
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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations... 
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a shar... 
[A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and... 
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slave... 
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice. 
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice t... 
If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injus... 
It has always been my ambition since childhood to live such a life that one day my fellow citizens w... 
Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the h... 
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or mo... 
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more... 
In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel... 
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom. 
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom 
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. 
Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their ... 
We live in a world of shadow and light, pain and joy. We spend our entire lives investigating the ma... 
Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they ... 
The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from i... 
All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from... 
I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people... 
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Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we... 
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The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remov... 
… many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as the... 
When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes. 
When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness. 
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