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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Angels Changed Devils Humility
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Begin Clouds Descending First
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Beyond Defeat Defeating Enemy
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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Decision Destroy Enables Falcon
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Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

Attack Defence Lies Possibility
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Great Mistake Every Halfway
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When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.

Actually Adopted Come Get
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Fiction Literature Luxury Necessity
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Ability Creator Develop God
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

Almost Been Development Even
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One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

China Creating Educational Enterprises
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Above Elected Once Politics
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We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

Almost Among Arts Become
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I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

Allow Anyone Badly Difference
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Courage Dignity Grace His
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Act Affect Again Consequences
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

Basically Been Behave Believe
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In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

Counting Dead Drain Fruitful
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Body Gets Law Medicine
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Equality Fraternity Liberty Like
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Compared Courageous Government Man
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Conflict Discrimination Full Fundamental
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Conviction Discontent Enough Importance
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Act Cannot Ceases Essence
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Constitution Denies Different Embodied
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Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.

Abolish Abolition Aim Alone
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

Base Cannot Democracy Does
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

America Belief Believe Between
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

Democratic History Looked Many
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

American Cannot Country Discarded
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Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

American Bind Common Heed
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Common Each Formed Good
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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
Both Economic Education Empowerment
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Beyond Control Exchange Excuse
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

Ability Become Control Counterproductive
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

American Attack Cannot Chinese
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The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.

Characteristics Clarity Empowered Forgiveness
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I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

Against Decided Discovered First
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You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

Ability Achieve Believe Choose
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.

Depends Earth Entirely Everyone
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Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.

Activism Begin Change Changes
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Appreciation Awe Caring Contentment
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The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.

Active Choose Love Distinguish
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Freud never questioned the powerful participation of objective realities in the very constitution of human experience. Love, as he put it late in life, seeks objects. So does hatred. And those objects are external, not internal, agents of experience.

Freud Questioned Powerful Participation
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America is a young country with an old mentality.

America Country Mentality Old
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We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

Act Could Make Married
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But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.

Continue Matter Meet Open
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The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

Desire East Freedom Help
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I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

Any Council Elected Fond
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You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

Afraid Allow Break Christmas
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