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- He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.
- J. E. Buchrose
- Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.
- Mary Field Belenky, Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind, p. 187
- The best index to a person's character is
(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. - Abigail van Buren (1918 - )
- We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
- Sydney J. Harris
- When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
- Marquis de Vauvenargues
- To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.
- Robert J. Furey
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