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It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong. Leo Tolstoy
W. E. B. Du Bois quote: "Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. W. E. B. Du Bois
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges. Booker T. Washington
A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won. Lloyd Alexander
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs. Madeleine L'Engle
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society. George Washington
J. K. Rowling quote: "Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?"
Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck? J. K. Rowling
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than..."
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. W. Somerset Maugham
I think I hoped for something more. Maybe I even hoped that I could find in Richard what I had with Ben. But it is suddenly very clear: Richard is not fallin in love with me and I'm not falling in love with Richard. We are not creating anything permanent or special. We are only having fun together. It is a fling- a fling just like he said last night- a fling with an ending yet to be determined. I feel relieved to have it defined Emily Giffin
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. Francis Bacon
Victor Hugo quote: "There is always more misery among the lower classes than there..."
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Victor Hugo
These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light. Ian Mcewan
John C. Maxwell quote: "To collaborative team members, completing one another is more..."
To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another. John C. Maxwell
This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death. Robert Bolt
Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time. Paulo Coelho

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