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"The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."
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"Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance."

"Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive."

"Intelligence is not always the source of knowledge but love is."

"Often morality defines our inner philosophy."

"Knowledge can be borrowed but wisdom cannot because wisdom comes from experience."

"The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning."

"Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you."
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"Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not."

"It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."

"All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena."

"Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction."

"A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it."

"Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true."

"Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them."

"Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy."

"If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time."
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