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- As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
- Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975), On Revolution (1963)
- There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.
- Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
- Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
- Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
- My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
- Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
- It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
- When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears.
- Gene Oliver
- Every path serves a purpose.
- Gene Oliver
- When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
- Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.
- Millard Fuller, founder and president, Habitat for Humanity International
- Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Orestes (408 BC)
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