"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You speak of the good conduct of your ancestors. As your own conduct is under discussion, and not theirs, I cannot see how their former good character can at all serve your present purpose. Fortunately for our country, every man stands upon his own merit."
Stephen Decatur
"All humans are sentient and sapient beings so they have the ability to perceive, think, and act using their knowledge, experience, insight, and conscience."
Debasish Mridha
"It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error."
Saint Augustine
"Only when people are aware will they start to care."
Toni Sorenson
"We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas."
Mona Caird
"Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine."
Russell M. Nelson
"Sectarian thinking is contagious and rapidly spread."
Moutasem Algharati
"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."
John Updike
"A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people."
Bryant McGill
"Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought."
H. Rider Haggard
"Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based."
Tyra Banks
"Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of any one. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognises that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example."
Anne Frank
"There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness."
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