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Socrates quote: "Let him who would move the world first move himself."
Let him who would move the world first move himself. Socrates
Langston Hughes quote: "I asked you, baby, If you understood-You told me that you..."
I asked you, baby, If you understood-You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would. Langston Hughes
James Joyce quote: "I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could..."
I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. James Joyce
Franklin P. Adams quote: "Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our..."
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. Franklin P. Adams
The thorns which I have reap'd are of the treeI planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. George Byron
Carl Rogers quote: "What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly."
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. Carl Rogers
Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions. Kurt Vonnegut
It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies. Theodor Adorno
Taylor Swift quote: "I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world..."
I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :) Taylor Swift
Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of genuine humanity in a person. Thomas Keneally
The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, assumes personal responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and keeps out of it. Without this hidden conspiracy of good will, society would not endure an hour. Kenneth Rexroth
For my own part, my constant prayer is that I may know the worst of my case, whatever the knowledge may cost me. I know that an accurate estimate of my own heart can never be otherwise than lowering to my self-esteem; but God forbid that I should be spared the humiliation which springs from the truth! The sweet red apples of self-esteem are deadly poison; who would wish to be destroyed thereby? The bitter fruits of self-knowledge are always healthful, especially if washed down with the... Charles Spurgeon
Martin Luther quote: "True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it..."
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue. Martin Luther
ECONOMICS IS HAUNTED by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics or medicine—the special pleading of selfish interests. Henry Hazlitt
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible. Thomas Sowell

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