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"You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come."
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"Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn't willing to do 'anything' for money."

"You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!"

"Never try to prove that you are right or superior. Let the Lord Himself fight for you."

"We humble ourselves under the mighty grace of the Creator. He will deliver us from every chain and oppression."
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"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

"To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision."

"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."

"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."

"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."

"I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true."

"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
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