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QUOTES 4/10/26
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You can’t become a dictator through checks and balances… TOMMY CHONG
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Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasselled flower… GEORGE ELIOT
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What insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that public at large insures insurance companies…GERRY SPENCE
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“You are not wrong who deem
  That my days have been a dream;
    Yet if hope has flown away
    In a night, or in a day,
    In a vision, or in none,
    Is it therefore the less gone?
    All that we see or seem
    Is but a dream within a dream.” …EDGAR ALLAN POE
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Making new petroleum should be as simple and straightforward as brewing beer… GEORGE M CHURCH
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Practise loving those who do not love you. Feel for those who do not feel for you. Be generous to those who are generous only to themselves. If you heap hatred on your enemy, neither he nor you can perceive the inherent beauty of your soul…. PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
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Shakespeare once said ‘You can smile and smile and still be a villain’.
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‘Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful’… FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
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For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the desires of men…CS LEWIS
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A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, walk, speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings…I am because other people are… DESMOND TITU
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The job of the Central Bank is to worry…ALICE RIVLIN
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There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All tragedy in the world, in individual and in multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one’s own life….HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square miles, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven…EM FORSTER in his novel HOWARDS END
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At its best, schooling can be about how to make life, which is quite different from how to make a living…NEIL POSTMAN
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What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others…ALAIN DE BOTTOM
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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that children can live in peace…THOMAS PAINE
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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion… ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason…VOLTAIRE