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| For Beauty
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
-- Audrey Hepburn
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| Personal Information
I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.
-- Marissa Mayer
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| Interaction
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
-- Margaret Heffernan
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| Space to Grow
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
-- Max de Pree
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| I Love You
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
-- Erich Fromm
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| Professional Teachers
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
---Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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| In Darkness
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
-- Meister Eckhart
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| Reason
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
-- Immanuel Kant
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| On Being Guilty
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
-- Immanuel Kant
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| People's Opium
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
-- Karl Marx
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| Climbing Mountains
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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| Unassailable Title
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
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| Suicide of Democracies
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
-- John Adams
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| Now He Gets It
The message from voters is clear: they want us to work together.
-- U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D), hours after his party suffered a crushing defeat in the 2014 mid-term elections
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| Daily Work
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
-- Barbara Kingsolver
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| Practical Democracy
Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy ...
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| Wise versus Foolish
Fools take a knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord, and set themselves free from the fools.
-- Unknown
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| Cool Judgment
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
-- Woodrow Wilson
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| Mirrors
I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.
-- Jay-Z
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| Strange Business
Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim for it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
-- Ayrton Senna
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| Choices
We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.
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| Tolerance
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
-- Voltaire
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| Surprises
Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can ...
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| State Troubles
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same ...
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| Words
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, ...
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