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• Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Attitude, Moving

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• Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Democracy, Defeat

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• No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

  Mark Twain

  God, Men, Next

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

  Sarah Palin

  God, People, Church

  "Kissing the Jewish vote goodbye". Sarah Palin's speech to a group of graduating students in her church, Wasilla Assembly of God, Alaska, www.theguardian.com. June, 2008.

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• As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

  Barack Obama

  Graduation, America, Together

  Commencement Address at Ohio State University, abcnewsradioonline.com. May 5, 2013.

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• When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Thoughtful, Mind

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• You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Happiness, Men, Self

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• This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. So to actually make a new No. 1 is spectacularly stupid.

  Russell Crowe

  Hilarious, Stupid, Dumb

  "Russell Crowe Apologizes for Phone Rage". www.foxnews.com. June 8, 2005.

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• In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Men, History, Earth

  James Harvey Robinson (1912). “The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook”

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• The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Men, History, Teach

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• History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Mean, Men, Self

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• Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . But the tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and checks in some measure its irresistible flow, so that, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion.

  Anna Komnene

  Strong, Taken, History

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• If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

  Sarah Winnemucca

  Women, Thinking, Justice

  Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1883). “Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims”, p.53, University of Nevada Press

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• Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Office, Charity, Philanthropy

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• When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Love, Life, Hope

  "Christian's Mistake" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (p. 64), 1865.

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• Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

  Martin Luther

  Hope, Benefits, World

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.146

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• There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

  Emma Thompson

  Lying, Knowledge, Mean

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• The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

  Susan Glaspell

  Knowledge, Past, Men

  Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

  Laozi

  Leadership, Hate, People

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• Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Deeds, Littles

  "Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success" by Jim Clemmer, (p. 137), 1999.

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• With aching hands and bleeding feet
  We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
  We bear the burden and the heat
  Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
  Not till the hours of light return
  All we have built do we discern.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Light, Hands

  'Parting' (1852) l. 19

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• Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Past, Complaining

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.678

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• What have I done? What horrid crime committed?
  To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.

  Colley Cibber

  Life, Crime, Worst

  Colley Cibber (1760). “The careless husband; The rival fools; The lady's last stake; Richard III”, p.334

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• No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Writing, Skills

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.

  Julian of Norwich

  Life, Saws, Ends

  "Revelations of Divine Love" by Julian of Norwich, (Ch. 86), c. 1393.

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