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In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.: Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926)
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.: Charles Sumner (1811 - 1874)
Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.: Richard Guggenheimer
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.: Chaim Weizmann (1874 - 1952)
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That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.: Harold Laki
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.: Henry Beston
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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