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- Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
- Walter Lippman
- Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.
- Author Unknown
- Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
- Sterne
- All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Honore De Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
- Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
- James Allen
- Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
- Smiley Blanton
- I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
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