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"Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick."
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"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."

"A woman's beauty is worth little to you, a woman's intelligence is worth much to you, a woman's virtue is worth more to you, a woman's love is worth the most to you, and a woman's loyalty is worth everything to you."

"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."

"If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy."

"Richness is not in wealth or earning capability, but it is in your perception."

"Too many people die early, either tragically or natural death, because they did not treat their lives with any sense of value."

"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."

"Love in your heart is better than gold in your hands."
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"Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice."

"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."

"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought."

"Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks."

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

"Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick."
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