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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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Personal Development

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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Personal Development

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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Personal Development

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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Personal Development

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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Personal Development

"Give light and people will find the way."
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Personal Development

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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Personal Development

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
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Personal Development

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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Personal Development

"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."
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"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."
Wisdom

"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."
Responsibility

"A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions."
Learning

"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."
Wisdom

"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life

"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."
Law

"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so."
Philosophy

"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."
Psychology

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
Society

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
Creativity
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