"Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough."
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"I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind."
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"The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn."
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"The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women."
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"Stakeholders - meaning workers and community - the CEO could just as well be responsible to them. This presupposes there ought to be management but why does there have to be management? Why not have the stakeholders run the industry?"
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"I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist."
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"If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service."
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"Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but in the stirrings of those who have been challenged, in the doubt of those who have been prodded, and in the hopes of those who have been awakened."
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"Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?."
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"Wish that everything should come about just as it does."
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"The healthy man does not torture others."
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"It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth does not consist in money, or in gold and silver; but in what money purchases, and is valuable only for purchasing. Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it."
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"It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man."
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"A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity."
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""We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.""
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"Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite."
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"Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete."
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"Life is a business that does not cover the costs."
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"Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced."
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"Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality."
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