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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary.
To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- Plato
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society
He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
- James Baldwin
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Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
- Margaret Chase Smith
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There never was a good knife made of bad steel.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
- Demosthenes
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There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
- Cyrus Curtis
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
- Marian Wright Edelman
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
- Plato
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For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
- God - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
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I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day.
I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated,
alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know
about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
- Mario Cuomoa
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Action that is clearly right needs no justification.
- Elisabeth Elliot
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No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity,
if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family,
what have you really accomplished?
- Lee Iacocca
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
- Sigmund Freud
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Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.
- Anne Geddes
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead;
walk beside me, and just be my friend.
- Albert Camus
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them;
their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
- Jean Paul Richter
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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
- The Bible, Proverbs 22:6
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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What matters is not that you have lied to me. What matters is that now I can no longer believe anything you say.
- Nietzche
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What does not destroy me makes me stronger. - Nietzsche
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He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.
- Nietzsche
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Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
- Leo Buscaglia
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It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
- Addison Walker
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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
- Clyde Campbell
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Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
- William Shakespeare, "MacBeth"
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- Virginia Woolfe
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A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
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Facts do not cease to exist simply because they are ignored.
- Author Unknown
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If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open and so is your heart. 
And though there may be times when your hands are empty, 
your heart is always full and you can give things out of that. 
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
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