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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. – Henry David Thoreau

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He was a “how” thinker, not an “if” thinker. – Author Unknown

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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

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It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity. РMaurice Barre̬s, La Grande Piti̩ des ̩glises de France, 1914

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Hate the sin and love the sinner. – Mohandas Gandhi

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