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- It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.
- Euell Gibbons
- Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
- Dogen Zenji
- You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.
- Sidney Madwed
- Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
- People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
- Charles Richter
- As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
- Clarence Day
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