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«Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.»
«Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.»
«Lessons taught but never learned,all around us anger burns.Guide the future by the past.Long ago the mould was cast.»
«Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
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Education
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«I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.»
Author: Anne Frank
(Author)
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War
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«I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
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Perfection
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«I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago... that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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«It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us we should have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilized men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.»
«New York Taxi Rules:1. Driver speaks no English.2. Driver just got here two days ago from someplace like Segal.3. Driver hates you.»
«Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use»
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