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| | The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
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| The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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| We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
| | Abigail Adams,
1744-1818, American,
Wife of 2nd President of the USA |
| If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
| | Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Phillips),
1918-, American,
Writer and Journalist |
| Love lasts when the relationship comes first.
| | Abraham Lincoln,
1809-1865, American,
Statesman, former president of the USA |
| The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behaviour.
| | Abraham Maslow,
1908-1970, American,
Psychologist |
| But behaviour in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
| | Abraham Maslow,
1908-1970, American,
Psychologist |
| Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There is always tomorrow.
| | Adam R. Gwizdala,
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| Lying is done with words and also with silence.
| | Adrienne Rich,
1929-, American,
Feminist and Poet |
| Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperament?
| | Aeschylus,
525-456 BCE, Greek,
Poet |
| Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
| | Agatha Christie,
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| One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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| I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
| | Alain de Botton,
1969-, English,
Writer |
| There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
| | Albert Bandura,
1925-, Canadian,
Psychologist |
| People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
| | Albert Bandura,
1925-, Canadian,
Psychologist |
| Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Charm is a way of getting the answer yet without asking a clear question.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
| | Albert Einstein,
1879-1955, German American,
Physicist |
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