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[Quote No.49681] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts:]
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards." - Samuel Johnson
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[Quote No.49711] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Each human like] Humanity is just a work in progress. [Like yourself, no-one is perfect yet. They will occasionally make mistakes that will hurt themselves and others. Holding their mistakes against them is only useful if it protects you from further hurt. Usually however being angry at another only hurts you while they go on obliviously. Better to come to terms with it quickly, understand their mistake and forgive yourself for not previously knowing enough to avoid it or them.]" - Tennessee Williams
(1911 - 1983)
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[Quote No.49725] Need Area: Friends > General
"Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner." - Lao Tzu
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[Quote No.49731] Need Area: Friends > General
"This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil. [This happens because of the human desire for justice, equality and fairness, reflected in 'tit-for-tat' punishment, the ethical concept of Reciprocity and the old testament moral concept of 'an eye for an eye'.]
" - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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[Quote No.49734] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Envy and jealousy:] Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves." - E. Joseph Cossman
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[Quote No.49736] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Free market capitalism Versus mixed or state dominated economies:] An outstanding feature of the open market is the businessman, whose success or failure depends entirely on his ability to 'focus on consumer needs' and so combine existing and potential factors of production to serve consumers most efficiently. The only constructive role government can play under the free market method of overcoming poverty is to see that the participation of individuals is strictly voluntary--that none is permitted to steal from or cheat or enslave another. In the free and open society, the organized force of government is to be used only if necessary to protect the lives and property of peaceful individuals. In other words, the proper function of government is to protect against robbery rather than practice it." - Paul L. Poirot
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[Quote No.49745] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Empathy:] You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view -- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
" - Harper Lee
Author. Quote from her book, 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.
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[Quote No.49854] Need Area: Friends > General
"Real integrity [morality, ethics, decency, good character] is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not [except yourself]." - Oprah Winfrey
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[Quote No.49875] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths! These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
" - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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[Quote No.49879] Need Area: Friends > General
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them!" - Dalai Lama
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[Quote No.49923] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism and authenticity:] The greatest prison people live in, is the fear of what other people think of them. [And the greatest irony is that this prison is imaginary because most other people aren't even thinking of them. Most other people are too busy thinking about themselves - their wants and needs and how they look to others!]" - Unknown
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[Quote No.49955] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same." - Steve Maraboli
'Life, the Truth, and Being Free'
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[Quote No.49956] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property:] There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves." - Steve Maraboli
'Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience'.
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[Quote No.50007] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics, reciprocity and realisable equality:]
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not
only to their benefactor, but to everyone else." - Buddha
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[Quote No.50023] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Envy and jealousy:] The only time you should look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them." - Louis C.K
American comedian
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[Quote No.50049] Need Area: Friends > General
"A person who uses force is afraid of reason." - Kenyan Proverb
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[Quote No.50073] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods." - H. L. Mencken
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[Quote No.50120] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom, individualism, and being yourself, so long as it doesn't hurt another's physical person or property:] Don’t be afraid to be who you are, no matter who that person might be!" - Mandy Hale
'The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass'
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[Quote No.50152] Need Area: Friends > General
"You have the freedom to live and let live.. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you." - Martha Beck
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[Quote No.50293] Need Area: Friends > General
"The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the naive self-interest of each group [including each political faction] to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want [now] but what they will learn to want [once all the options have been better explained and their short and long-term benefits fully understood]." - Walter Lippmann
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[Quote No.50297] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics and reciprocity:] He that does good to another does good also to himself.
" - Seneca
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[Quote No.50317] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Propaganda and] Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell
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[Quote No.50318] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Propaganda and political language:] As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
" - Gore Vidal
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[Quote No.50327] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Nearly] Every social [political] war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators." - Murray Kempton
American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.
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[Quote No.50436] Need Area: Friends > General
"We must not allow [only] other people's limited perceptions [of us] to define us [and our self-worth and self-esteem]." - Virginia Satir
American Pychologist
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[Quote No.50461] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every time someone says or does anything you find distressful, immediately add it to your mental database of things you are committed not to do to others." - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
From his book, 'Kindness'.
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[Quote No.50463] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] Everyone knows the Torah verse 'Love your neighbor as yourself' (Leviticus 19:18). ...Therefore we should feel the joy of others and, similarly, empathize with their misfortunes. This is the essence of all our obligations towards our fellow man." - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
From his book, 'Consulting the Wise'. See Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev - Kedushas Levi, Perushai Agodos.
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[Quote No.50478] Need Area: Friends > General
"Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide!" - Kurt Vonnegut
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[Quote No.50506] Need Area: Friends > General
"Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." - Rumi
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[Quote No.50522] Need Area: Friends > General
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime!!" - Mark Twain
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[Quote No.50539] Need Area: Friends > General
"Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves [individual freedom so long as do not force or defraud others], than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest [behaviour, etc., for all decreed by majority without regard for minority wishes which hurt no-one else]." - John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist. Source: 'On Liberty', 1859.
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[Quote No.50540] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism and freedom for minorities so long as they do not force or defraud others:] It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better." - Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974
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[Quote No.50541] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism and freedom for minorities so long as they don't force or defraud:] A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas." - Henry Steele Commager
(1902-1998) Historian and author. Source: 'Freedom, Loyalty and Dissent', 1954.
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[Quote No.50542] Need Area: Friends > General
"Were we directed from Washington [by government and its notoriously non-incentivised, inefficient bureaucracy] when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President.
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[Quote No.50605] Need Area: Friends > General
"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry." - William F. Buckley
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[Quote No.50609] Need Area: Friends > General
"We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary." - Malcolm X
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[Quote No.50625] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism versus Conformity:] If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be!" - Maya Angelou
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[Quote No.50643] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Ethics, morality and private property:] The moment the idea is admitted into society that property [especially private property] is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free!" - John Adams
A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787
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[Quote No.50646] Need Area: Friends > General
"Beware the greedy hand of [interventionist] government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry." - Thomas Paine
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[Quote No.50647] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Government deficits and debt:] The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.50648] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Government deficit and debt:] I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our [U.S.] Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.50649] Need Area: Friends > General
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." - Benjamin Franklin
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[Quote No.50667] Need Area: Friends > General
"An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods." - Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914) Humorist
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[Quote No.50668] Need Area: Friends > General
"The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1874-1936) British essayist, critic, poet, and novelist.
Source: Broadcast talk, June 11, 1935.
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[Quote No.50673] Need Area: Friends > General
"Many politicians... are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool... who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim." - Thomas Babington Macaulay
(1800-1859) [Lord Macaulay] 1st Baron Macaulay, British historian
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[Quote No.50675] Need Area: Friends > General
"All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws." - Voltaire
(1694-1778), pen-name of François Marie Arouet.
Source: Essay on Manners, 1756
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[Quote No.50692] Need Area: Friends > General
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.' " - Sam Levenson
American humorist, writer, teacher, television host and journalist.
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[Quote No.50714] Need Area: Friends > General
"In general, pride [the lack of humility] is at the bottom of all great mistakes." - John Ruskin
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[Quote No.50717] Need Area: Friends > General
"Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.
" - Buddha
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[Quote No.50719] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Ethics, morality and reciprocity:] This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or injury to others, a man obtains a proper rule of action by looking at his neighbor as himself.
" - The Mahabharta
Sanskrit epic poem and Hindu scripture of ancient India.
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