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"What I must do
is all that concerns
me. This rule,
equally arduous in
actual and
intellectual
life,
may serve for the
whole distinction
between
greatness
and meanness. It is
harder because you
will always find
those who think they
know what is your
duty better than you
know it."
[RALPH WALDO
EMERSON] |
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"The essence of our
effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an
equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to
realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she
possesses."
[JOHN MARTIN FISCHER] |
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"The Law, in its majestic
equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the
bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
[ANATOLE FRANCE] |
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"To be humble to
superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness."
[BENJAMIN FRANKLIN] |
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"The various modes of
worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the
people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the
magistrate, as equally useful."
[EDWARD GIBBON]
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"I am indeed rich, since
my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my
wishes."
[KAHLIL GIBRAN]
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"For every
romantic
possibility, no
matter how robust,
there exists at
least one equal and
opposite sentence,
phrase, or word
capable of
extinguishing it."
[MALCOM GLADWELL] |
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"A
friend should be one
in whose understanding and
virtue we can equally confide, and whose
opinion we can value at once for its
justness and its sincerity."
[ROBERT HALL] |
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"Old
age equalizes- we
are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers
from the beginning of
time. When we are young we act as if we were the
first young people in the world."
[JANE HARRISON]
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"An act has no ethical
quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally
possible."
[WILLIAM JAMES]
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