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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. - John Bu

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. – John Burroughs

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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. – John Burroughs

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Science
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. – John Burroughs

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Failure
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs

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I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so. – Timothy White

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Hatred is corrosive of a persons wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nations spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a societys tolerance and humanity, and block a nations progress to freedom and democracy. – Liu Xiaobo

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Wisdom

Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire. – Bhagavad Gita

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By others faults the wise correct their own. – Proverb

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People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. – Condorcet, Progress of the Human Mind, 1794

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. – Helen Keller

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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? – Carl Rogers

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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. – Karl Barth

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