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"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"
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"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."
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Personal Development
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
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Personal Development
"Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?"
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Personal Development
"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."
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Personal Development
"Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your feeling so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been mistake to label this "love". It was more like total empathy."
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"The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance."
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Personal Development
"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."
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Personal Development
"Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower."
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"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."
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"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
Freedom
"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."
Politics
"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."
Leadership
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
Peace
"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."
Leadership
"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other."
Philosophy
"All authority belongs to the people."
Politics
"Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste."
Politics
"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital."
Wisdom
"Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take."
Wisdom
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