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====== Favourite Quotes ====== | ====== Favourite Quotes ====== | ||
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+ | Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. | ||
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"One could not be a successful scientist without realising that, in contrast to popular conception supported by newspapers and mother of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid." | "One could not be a successful scientist without realising that, in contrast to popular conception supported by newspapers and mother of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid." | ||
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"They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil; but that the evil is greater than the good. And so when men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither; hence there arise laws and mutual covenants; and that which is ordained by law is termed by them lawful and just. This they affirm to be the origin and nature of justice; --it is a mean or compromise, between the best of all, which is to do injustice and not be punished, and the worst of all, which is to suffer injustice without the power of retaliation; | "They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil; but that the evil is greater than the good. And so when men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither; hence there arise laws and mutual covenants; and that which is ordained by law is termed by them lawful and just. This they affirm to be the origin and nature of justice; --it is a mean or compromise, between the best of all, which is to do injustice and not be punished, and the worst of all, which is to suffer injustice without the power of retaliation; | ||
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- | "No matter which you chose, you would have borne a sin either way. Those who look away from battle and choose humiliation, | ||
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- | "My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, | ||
- | and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable. | ||
- | reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch. Space is indifferent | ||
- | to what we do; it has no feeling, no design, no interest in whether or not | ||
- | we grapple with it. But we cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand, | ||
- | slow march of intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point | ||
- | from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now | ||
- | would be to deny our history, our capabilities. | ||
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- | If your own lie doesn' | ||
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+ | Dad taught us that public service is noble and necessary; that one can serve with integrity and hold true to the important values, like faith and family. He strongly believed that it was important to give back to the community and country in which one lived. He recognized that serving others enriched the giver’s soul. To us, his was the brightest of a thousand points of light. | ||
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+ | In victory, he shared credit. When he lost, he shouldered the blame. He accepted that failure is part of living a full life, but taught us never to be defined by failure. He showed us how setbacks can strengthen. | ||
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+ | Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. | ||
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