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[Quote No.26353] Need Area: Friends > General
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation [for honesty and decency] and five minutes to ruin it." - Warren Buffett
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[Quote No.26355] Need Area: Friends > General
"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. [but it is worth considering if their opinion indicates a way you can improve yourself.]" - Les Brown
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[Quote No.26359] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you've had wonderful family relationships, you will be able to call yourself a true success in life no matter what else you've achieved." - Vic Conant
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[Quote No.26364] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics: means versus end - 'how get' versus 'what want'...] A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous...In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad." - Freeman Dyson
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[Quote No.26367] Need Area: Friends > General
"Write the wrongs that are done to you in sand,
but write the good things that happen to you
on a piece of marble. Let go of all emotions such as resentment and retaliation, which diminish you,
and hold onto the emotions, such as gratitude and joy,
which increase you." - Arab proverb
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[Quote No.26368] Need Area: Friends > General
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate." - Robert Frost
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[Quote No.26369] Need Area: Friends > General
"As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other." - John Stuart Mill
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[Quote No.26372] Need Area: Friends > General
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If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. [In our desire for a moral end we must not succumb to using easier immoral means]" - Hans Bethe
Theoretical physicist who was the chief of the theoretical division for the Manhattan Atom Bomb Project
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[Quote No.26376] Need Area: Friends > General
"The reason to forgive is for your own sake. For your own health. Because beyond that point needed for healing, if we hold on to our anger, we stop growing and our souls begin to shrivel." - M. Scott Peck
(1936 - 2005), American psychiatrist and best-selling author who wrote the best-selling book, 'The Road Less Traveled'
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[Quote No.26378] Need Area: Friends > General
"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. [in fact he expects it]
" - Confucius
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[Quote No.26383] Need Area: Friends > General
"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. [if either party deals unfairly or dishonestly.]" - Tryon Edwards
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[Quote No.26400] Need Area: Friends > General
"Do not limit it [gentle sensitivity - empathy] to the suffering of men, but extend your humanity even to animals. Do not make any which belong to you unhappy; do not neglect their welfare; do not be insensitive to their naive and sincere gratitude; cause them no unnecessary pain.
Anything of the sort would be a true injustice and an insult to nature, who would punish you by the hardness of heart which habitual cruelty must produce." - Marquis de Condorcet
(1743-1794), Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, French philosopher, mathematician, social scientist, economist, gentleman, politician and humanitarian. From his ‘Advice To My Daughter’, which was written in 1794, for his daughter who was born in 1790 and sent to the country with his wife for safety during his leading role in the French Revolution.
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[Quote No.26401] Need Area: Friends > General
"My child, one of the best ways to ensure your happiness is to have preserved your self-respect, so that you can look back on your whole life without shame or remorse, without seeing a dishonorable act, nor a time when you have wronged someone without having made amends.
Think of the pain you have felt as a result of even minor injustices or mistakes, and imagine how it must feel to be the victim of serious injustices or truly shameful misconduct. Carefully nurture the precious self-respect which will ensure that bad actions always make you blush and that virtuous ones make you feel humble.
Everything will then become gentle and pure. A comforting charm will fill the moments when your soul is unoccupied with impressions or ideas, and give way to lazy reverie, allowing memories of the past to drift slowly before it. Even when you are distressed, your sorrows will be mitigated by the memory of a generous action, or by the image of the unfortunate people whose tears you have dried.
But do not allow this feeling to be tainted with pride.
Enjoy your life without comparing it to that of others. It is enough for you to know that you are good, without examining whether others are as good as you.
The painful pleasures of vanity would cost you too much. They would spoil the purer pleasures with which nature rewards good actions." - Marquis de Condorcet
(1743-1794), Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, French philosopher, mathematician, social scientist, economist, gentleman, politician and humanitarian. From his ‘Advice To My Daughter’, which was written in 1794, for his daughter who was born in 1790 and sent to the country with his wife for safety during his leading role in the French Revolution.
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[Quote No.26403] Need Area: Friends > General
"By indulgence, I do not mean the ability, born of indifference or thoughtlessness, to pardon [forgive] everything simply because you do not feel or notice anything. I mean the indulgence based on justice, on reason, on an awareness of your own weakness, and on our happy inclination to pity men [and women] rather than condemn them...Before judging someone harshly, before becoming irritated by his [or her] defects or reacting violently against what he [or she] has just said or done, consult justice. Do not be afraid to think over your own mistakes; question your reason and listen above all to the natural goodness which you are certain to find at the bottom of your heart - for if you do not find it there, all this advice would be useless; my experience and my tenderness could do nothing for your happiness." - Marquis de Condorcet
(1743-1794), Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, French philosopher, mathematician, social scientist, economist, gentleman, politician and humanitarian. From his ‘Advice To My Daughter’, which was written in 1794, for his daughter who was born in 1790 and sent to the country with his wife for safety during his leading role in the French Revolution.
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[Quote No.26404] Need Area: Friends > General
"You will find that life in society is more pleasant and, dare I day, more convenient, if you live for others. Only then do you truly live for yourself." - Marquis de Condorcet
(1743-1794), Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, French philosopher, mathematician, social scientist, economist, gentleman, politician and humanitarian. From his ‘Advice To My Daughter’, which was written in 1794, for his daughter who was born in 1790 and sent to the country with his wife for safety during his leading role in the French Revolution.
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[Quote No.26425] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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[Quote No.26436] Need Area: Friends > General
"Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good." - Ann Landers
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[Quote No.26441] Need Area: Friends > General
"The angry person is never in the right even when right." - Shantidas Adhikari
Hindu preacher from Sylhet who converted King Pamheiba of Manipur to Hinduism in 1717 C.E.
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[Quote No.26458] Need Area: Friends > General
"What would love do now? [is a question to help anyone find a solution motivated by love.]" - Neale Donald Walsch
American author. From his 'Conversation with God' books.
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[Quote No.26460] Need Area: Friends > General
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
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[Quote No.26461] Need Area: Friends > General
"Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back." - Princess Diana
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[Quote No.26462] Need Area: Friends > General
"Put flowers on my table and not on my grave. [and show your love while I live] " - unknown
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[Quote No.26471] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." - Dalai Lama
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[Quote No.26485] Need Area: Friends > General
"Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy." - Gretta Brooker Palmer
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[Quote No.26488] Need Area: Friends > General
"You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness." - Unknown
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[Quote No.26534] Need Area: Friends > General
"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top." - James Reston
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[Quote No.26542] Need Area: Friends > General
"Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace." - Dalai Lama
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[Quote No.26545] Need Area: Friends > General
"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none." - Edmund Burke
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[Quote No.26547] Need Area: Friends > General
"Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked 'Take it or leave it.' [because it doesn't encourage choice or excellence unlike free-market capitalism]" - Arthur Seldon
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[Quote No.26554] Need Area: Friends > General
"Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind." - Charles L. Lucas
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[Quote No.26555] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Free enterprise capitalism]... is the only engine that has been developed so far that encourages people to be highly innovative, to develop new products and services." - Otto Eckstein
(1927-1984), noted German-born Harvard University economist and one-time member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
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[Quote No.26559] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice." - Theodore Roosevelt
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[Quote No.26560] Need Area: Friends > General
"Flawed as it is, the free-enterprise system still remains the most viable and efficient economic system. No one has yet developed a substitute that approaches, much less surpasses, its long-term, consistent capacity to provide the greatest good for the greatest number." - J. Paul Getty
American oil industrialist, philanthropist and at one time the richest man in the world. From his autobiography, ‘As I See It’
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[Quote No.26566] Need Area: Friends > General
"...soft words do not discourage hard criminals. Only hard punishment – and fear of it – will serve as an effective deterrent. [If they then commit a serious crime, the punishment should be carried through, coupled with restitution for the victims and effective re-education of the criminal before any release is allowed back into the law-abiding community.]" - J. Paul Getty
American oil industrialist, philanthropist and at one time the richest man in the world. From his autobiography, ‘As I See It’
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[Quote No.26567] Need Area: Friends > General
"I try to see my country’s flaws and weaknesses no less clearly than its perfections and strengths. This...is not only a right but a duty of citizenship." - J. Paul Getty
American oil industrialist, philanthropist and at one time the richest man in the world. From his autobiography, ‘As I See It’
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[Quote No.26568] Need Area: Friends > General
"...any marked increase in Government spending is invariably followed by even greater increases as appetites for public money, once whetted, grow more and more ravenous." - J. Paul Getty
American oil industrialist, philanthropist and at one time the richest man in the world. From his autobiography, ‘As I See It’
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[Quote No.26569] Need Area: Friends > General
"I have long divided people into two groups – those whom I call ‘life-enhancers’ and those whom I think tend to detract from life and diminish the life-enjoyment of those with whom they come in contact." - J. Paul Getty
American oil industrialist, philanthropist and at one time the richest man in the world. From his autobiography, ‘As I See It’
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[Quote No.26593] Need Area: Friends > General
"Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?" - Ronald Reagan
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[Quote No.26599] Need Area: Friends > General
"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." - Samuel Johnson
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[Quote No.26608] Need Area: Friends > General
"Life's most urgent question is : What are you doing for others?" - Martin Luther King
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[Quote No.26610] Need Area: Friends > General
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." - Frederick Douglass
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[Quote No.26611] Need Area: Friends > General
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
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[Quote No.26612] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." - John Adams
(1797-1801), the second President of the United States of America
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[Quote No.26614] Need Area: Friends > General
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." - Paulo Freire
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[Quote No.26615] Need Area: Friends > General
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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands." - Plato
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[Quote No.26617] Need Area: Friends > General
"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. [but the two don't always go hand-in-hand.]" - Stephen Vincent Benet
(1898-1943), from 1928 to his untimely death, the most popular writer of poetry and fiction in the United States.
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[Quote No.26619] Need Area: Friends > General
"All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice." - Theodore Bikel
(1924 - ), Folksinger; theater, film, and television actor; radio host; President of Actors' Equity; political activist; Jewish spokesman.
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[Quote No.26620] Need Area: Friends > General
"I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.26621] Need Area: Friends > General
"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." - William E. Gladstone
(1818-1886), English politician, statesman and four-time Prime Minister of Great Britain (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886, 1892–94).
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[Quote No.26626] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Ethics, morality and reciprocity:] Do as you would be done by." - Proverb
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