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- The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
- Henry L. Stimson (1867 - 1950)
- Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
- Charles A. Dana (1819 - 1897)
- What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
- Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
- If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.
- Thomas Secker
- I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'
- Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
- Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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