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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no m

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ones sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, ones character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. – William James

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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. – William James

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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. – Oscar Wilde

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Lets not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you cant have high standards without good discipline. – William Hague

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