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- More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
- The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.
- Lloyd Dobyns and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality
- History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love (1972)
- Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.
- Isaiah 58:12
- The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
- Frederick Chiluba
- The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.
- Eduard Sagalaev
- A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
- What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
- Dominique de Menil
- Unless the investment in children is made, all of humanity's most fundamental long-term problems will remain fundamental long-term problems.
- UNICEF, "The State of the World's Children" (1995)
- You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
- Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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