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In every age and every generation men have envisioned some promised land. Plato envisioned it in his republic as a time when justice would reign throughout society and philosophers would become kings and kings philosophers. Karl Marx envisioned it as a classless society in which the proletariat would finally conquer the reign of the bourgeoisie.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
~ Rollo May
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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
~ Will Rogers
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Each of us has a unique and specific quantum of compassion that we can extend. A key element of emotional self management is to understand that if we lavish concern on every stray cat that crosses our path, we will quickly deplete our capacity to care for the most important people in our lives and thus never get to the heart of our most important relationships.
~ Dmitri J. O’Bannon
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken
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