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'We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.'

Jean de la Bruyere

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"When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with reality."

Oswald Chambers

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'There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality, and then there are those who turn one into the other.'

Douglas H. Everett

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"Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love."

William Shakespeare

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'Love comes when manipulation stops - when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.'

Dr. Joyce Brothers

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“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”

Jane Smiley

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'The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me - a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.'

Albert Einstein

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"Society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”

Karl Marx

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"A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet afterwards comes out shooting the wounded."

Tyne Daly

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'Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish - Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.'

Thomas More