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Jean de La Fontaine
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| "According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works,
pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without
morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics
without principle. President Carter told of finding "The Seven Sins"
engraved on the wall of Gandhi"s memorial. President JIMMY CARTER, eulogy
at funeral services for former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, St. Paul,
Minnesota, January 16, 1978. ? Public Papers of the Presidents of the
United States: Jimmy Carter 1978, book 1, p. 80." | |
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Jimmy Carter
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| "All the world"s a stage, and all the men and women in it merely
players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his
time plays many parts." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and
defeat The stronger." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life." | |
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Erich Fromm
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| "Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it,
to accept it, no matter where it leads him." | |
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Henry Miller
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| "Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man
who hated, and this was an immutable law." | |
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James Baldwin
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| "Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when
his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster
they call Destiny." | |
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John Oliver Hobbes
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| "Out of life"s school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me
stronger." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid"s belief in the
virtue of maids." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise
enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy
ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It
is better to know even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that
comes before destruction than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull
and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before
us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine,
too." | |
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Isaac Asimov
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| "The 7 Deadly Sins are: Wealth without work Pleasure without
conscience Knowledge without character Business without morality Science
without humanity Worship without sacrifice Politics without
principle." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "The only interesting answers are those which destroy the
questions." | |
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Susan Sontag
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| "The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a
crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer
swing and play to the confined powers." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or
with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is." | |
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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| "Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad." | |
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Euripides
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| "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they
become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits;
they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your
destiny." | |
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Frank Outlaw
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| "We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we
put into it is ours." | |
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Dag Hammarskjöld
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| "We often give enemies the means of our own destruction." | |
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Aesop
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| "We write our own destiny ... we become what we do." | |
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Mme. Chiang Kai-shek
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| "Wedding is destiny, And hanging likewise." | |
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John Heywood
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| "What destroys one man preserves another." | |
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Pierre Corneille
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| "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising." | |
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Cyril Connolly
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