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# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate."

By Albert Schweitzer

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"Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."

By G. Macdonald

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"Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."

By Albert Einstein

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"Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart."

By R. Buckminster Fuller

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"Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."

By Vida D. Scudder

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"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."

By Edward Thorndike

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"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."

By Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes, 1939

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"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."

By Henry Steele Commager

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"Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids"

By Aristotle

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"Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness."

By John Howe

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"Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work"

By Orison Swett Marden

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"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

By Thomas Paine

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"Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character."

By R. C. Samsel

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"Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world."

By Author Unknown

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"Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."

By Francois Fenelon

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"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."

By Bernard Berenson

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"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."

By C. E. Stowe

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"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors."

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration."