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- 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)
- People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- You've done a nice job decorating the White House.
- Jessica Simpson (1980 - ), Upon being introduced to Interior Secretary Gale Norton
- Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
- Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882)
- There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them.
- Peretz Smolenskin
- Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.
- Max Nordau (1849 - 1923)
- Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity.
- Moses Hasid
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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