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In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), South Africa, 1966
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.: William Plomer
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.: Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 - 1835)
Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.: Unknown
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.: Jacob Riis
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918), The Education of Henry Adams
No man is free who is not master of himself.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.: Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD)
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

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