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Very Funny Famous Sayings - 90
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Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
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Carl von Clausewitz
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
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Rex Hudler
Be a fountain, not a drain.
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Clarence Darrow
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Dave Matthews, "Cry Freedom"
The future is no place to place your better days.
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Ovid
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944
It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
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Henry David Thoreau
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Chinese Proverb, The Graduates Book of Wisdom
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
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Cicero
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.
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Robert Millikan
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.
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Plutarch, Morals
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
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