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- The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
- Anna Louise Strong
- It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
- Arthur Calwell
- Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
- Edward Keating
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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