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4485 Philosopher Quotes

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

Better Determination Part Win
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Achieve Change Destiny Enable
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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

Continue Exist Force Long
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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

Awakening Dramatic Education Effects
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A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

Action Commitment Crucial Experience
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

Challenges Daily Education Genuine
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Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.

Behavior Defined Force Human
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There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

Accident Compassion Courage Destroy
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Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

Absence Better Civil Direction
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

Development Further Modernization Nuclear
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The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

Aging Dignity Ensure Individual
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Frightened Hurt Imagination More
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Any Consider Die Dispute
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Adversity Against Bravest Great
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Does Favorable Know Port
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Amount Difference Does How
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Life Speeds By While
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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Care Enough Lived Long
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Act Courage Even Live
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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Birthday Day Eternity Fear
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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

He Man Miserable Thinks
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Being Being There Human Human Being
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Because Dare Difficult Things
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Ever Existed Genius Great
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No man was ever wise by chance.

Chance Ever By Man
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Better Course Know Nothing
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Adversity Appreciation Become Destroys
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Able Failing Own Restrain
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Anger Delay Greatest Remedy
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Attention Behold Brave Brave Man
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Cast Down Fortune Height
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Deserve Fortune Good Good Fortune
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Bad Bows Down Earth
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Does End Great Grief
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A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Founded Injustice Kingdom Lasts
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Benefit Cheerfully Fingers Give
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Fade Health Life Soul
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When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Advice Good Good Advice Ill
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Becomes Fortune Great Great Mind
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Becomes,Fortune,Great,Great Mind,Mind

Love Loved Wished You
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Essence Fire Love Spiritual
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Good How Life Long
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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Beyond Burns Earth Eternity
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No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

He Life Man Quit
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Beyond Both Either Existence
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Appears Creative Dead Effort
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Common Common People False People
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

All Things Being Everything Existing
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Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Collaboration Every Result Sin
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Call Fate Fortune God
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