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«Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.»
Author: Mencius
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Evil
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«A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.»
Author: Robert Reich
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Leadership
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collaborative, entire, innovative, steps, term, The Long, tries, work over
«Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
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«'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.»
Author: Martha Graham
(Choreographer, Dancer, Teacher)
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Maturity
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acceptance, maturity, term
«2-in-1 is a bullshit term, because 1 is not big enough to hold 2. That's why 2 was created.»
«Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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«Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.»
«Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
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active, colonial, communism, Communists, correspond, corresponds, countries, freedom of movement, Movements, objects, played, role, short-term, term
«Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Friendship
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heroic, in reality, recognized, term
«'I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.»
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