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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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Leo Rosten
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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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Humor
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Leo Rosten
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The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao. – Steve Forbes

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strength

Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber. – Moshe Sharett

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strength

Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what theyre doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration. – Joe Nichols

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My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. – Peter Drucker

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A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. – George Bernard Shaw

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Our institutes agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally. – Peter L. Berger

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Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. – Leo Buscaglia

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know ones own mind. – Francis H. Bradley

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