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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
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Personal Development
"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."
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Personal Development
"God befriend us as our cause is just!"
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Personal Development
"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."
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"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."
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Personal Development
"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."
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"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"
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Personal Development
"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
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Personal Development
"Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well."
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Personal Development
"The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable."
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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Life
"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
Wealth
"The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them."
Destiny
"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day."
Wisdom
"Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical."
Wisdom
"A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers."
Society
"Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the ends of the earth, and yet in whatever outlandish corner of the world you may find yourself stationed, you will find that place, whatever it may be like, a hospitable home. Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there."
Philosophy
"Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
Philosophy
"He who has great power should use it lightly."
Leadership
"Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything."
Philosophy
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