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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff."

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
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"All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?"

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"Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that."

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"One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law."

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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections."

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George Santayana Philosopher, Poet
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"A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am"

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity."

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