"You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage."
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"The tree does not die, it waits."
"Equality is what does not exist among mortals."
"Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work."
"The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it."
"We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved."
"There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me"
"Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished."
"What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right."
"Sergeant first class Cory Remsburg never gives up and he does not quit."
"One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people."
"It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him."
"True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?""
"I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out."
"Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence."
"When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect."
"My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity."
"A good death does honour to a whole life."
"Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them."
"Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself."