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- Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- What you cannot enforce, do not command.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
- When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
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