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"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." Muhammad Ali, (1942 - ) boxer |
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"The man who has no imagination, has no wings." Muhammad Ali, (1942 - ) boxer |
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"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." Muhammad Ali, (1942 - ) boxer |
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"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think." Aristotle, (384-322 B.C.) Greek philosopher |
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"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." Victor Borge, comedian, musician |
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"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them." Buddha, (c. 563 B.C. - c. 483 B.C.) founder of Buddhism |
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"Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light." Buddha, (c. 563 B.C. - c. 483 B.C.) founder of Buddhism |
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"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." Buddha, (c. 563 B.C. - c. 483 B.C.) founder of Buddhism |
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." Winston Churchill, (1874 - 1965) English prime minister |
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill, (1874 - 1965) English prime minister |
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"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." Confucius, (551 - 479 B.C.) Chinese philosopher |
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Confucius, (551 - 479 B.C.) Chinese philosopher |
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Confucius, (551 - 479 B.C.) Chinese philosopher |
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Realization of Truth is higher than all else. Higher still is Truthful Living." Guru Nanak Dev, (1469-1539) founder of Sikhism |
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"I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos." Albert Einstein, (1879-1955) Physicist |
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"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." Albert Einstein, (1879-1955) Physicist |
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"I want to know God's thoughts. The rest is just details." Albert Einstein, (1879-1955) Physicist |
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"I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple." Albert Einstein, (1879-1955) Physicist |
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"What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark." Henry Ford, (1863 - 1947) automobile engineer and manufacturer |
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"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself." Galileo Galilei, (1564 - 1642) Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist |
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948) Indian political and spiritual leader |
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"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind." Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948) Indian political and spiritual leader |
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948) Indian political and spiritual leader |
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948) Indian political and spiritual leader |
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"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truth without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions." Thomas Jefferson, (1743 - 1826) Third U.S. President |
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"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men." John Fitzgerald Kennedy, (1917 - 1963) Thirty-fifth U.S. President |
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., (1929 -1968) Human rights leader and activist |
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., (1929 -1968) Human rights leader and activist |
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"One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., (1929 -1968) Human rights leader and activist |
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., (1929 -1968) Human rights leader and activist |
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"All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., (1929 -1968) Human rights leader and activist |
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., (1929 -1968) Human rights leader and activist |
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"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., (1929 -1968) Human rights leader and activist |
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"I have in irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it." Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) 16th U.S. President |
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"I don't know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be." Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) 16th U.S. President |
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"The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend." Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) 16th U.S. President |
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"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) 16th U.S. President |
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"An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God." Srinivasa Ramanujan, (1887 - 1920) Indian mathematician |
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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt, (1884 - 1962) Humanitarian, First Lady of the United States |
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"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering." Theodore Roosevelt, (1858-1919) 26th U.S. President |
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"Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." Margaret Thatcher, (1925 - ) British prime minister |
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"I have learned from an early age to abjure the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." Leonardo da Vinci, (1452 - 1519) Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer |
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"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." Leonardo da Vinci, (1452 - 1519) Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer |
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"Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly in misspending time." George Washington, (1732 - 1799) First U.S. President |
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"Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." George Washington, (1732 - 1799) First U.S. President |
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"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." George Washington, (1732 - 1799) First U.S. President |
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"If you can't see God in all, you can't see God at all." Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji, (1929 - 2004) |
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