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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness i

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. – Leo Rosten

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The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. – Leo Rosten

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Martin Luther King Day
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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. – Leo Rosten

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We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work. – John Dos Passos

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Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. – Lawrence G. Lovasik

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I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together. – Elvis Stojko

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I have the people behind me and the people are my strength. – Huey Newton

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We bow with resignation beneath the tempestuous storms of life; but a daily vexation, like a moth eating a garment, consumes our virtue. – Anonymous, Aphorisms; or, A Glance at Human Nature, in Original Maxims, 1820

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After all, sustainability means running the global environment – Earth Inc. – like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. – Maurice Strong

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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. – Karl Marx

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