"The most powerful moral influence is example."
"We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed."
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Source: Huston Smith (2009). “The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction”, p.37, Harper Collins
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