"Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture."
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"He who knows only his own side of the case (argument) knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion"
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"There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what he or she is told to do, and the other is the person who does no more than he or she is told to do."
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"The leopard does not change his spots."
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"What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does."
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"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive."
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"This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened."
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"Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create."
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"A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer."
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"Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us."
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"To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock."
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"The solutions are here. They have always been here. Food does matter!"
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"If you have one teapot And can brew your tea in it That will do quite well. How much does he lack himself Who must have a lot of things?"
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"I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do."
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"The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these"."
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"Why this strange indifferences to missions? Why these scant contributions? Why does money fail to be forthcoming when approved men and women are asking to be sent to proclaim the “unsearchable riches of Christ” to the heathen?"
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"Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me."
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"A genius is a talented person who does his homework."
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"Life is precious, do not waste it doing anything that your heart does not respect or agree with."
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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"
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