"you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing"
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"We live in a society where we may have differences, of course, but we learn to celebrate these differences."
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"Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential."
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"More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him."
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"I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it."
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"Words may inspire but only action creates change."
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"Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years."
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"Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion."
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"Appear as you may wish to be"
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"Mysterious as it may be, there is something wonderful at the heart of our existence, and it is about nothing other than love; love for God, love for one another, love for creation, love for life itself."
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"I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest."
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"Since there are so many idiots out there, you may actually start to think you're crazy. You are not. They are idiots."
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"You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."
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"One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge."
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"I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience."
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"There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place where one stands"
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"It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart."
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"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."
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"It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years."
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"Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us."
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