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- Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
- Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
- Henry S. Haskins
- Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
- John Lancaster Spalding
- Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
- Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
- Johann Georg von Zimmermann
- We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
- Jimmy Carter (1924 - ), in his farewell address
- Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
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