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- When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
- Dale Carnegie
- Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
- Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961)
- It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- US Declaration of Independence
- So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
- J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964)
- If for a tranquil mind you seek,
These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where. - Anonymous
- If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
- He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The wise man carries his possessions within him.
- Bias
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