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«We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.»
Author: Ben Sweetland
| About:
Social service
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brightened, brightening, brightens, our own, path, torch, torches
«We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.»
Author: Cesar Chavez
(Activist, Labor Organizer)
| Keywords:
achievement, ambitions, aspirations, broad, broadest, broads, community, include, our own, progress, prosperity, sakes
«This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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Kindness,
Religion
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brain, complicate, complicated, complicates, kindness, our own, philosophy, religion, simple, temple, temples, Temple in, This Is
«The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.»
Author: Roy L. Smith
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Anything Else, basis, character, faith, integrity, our own, The Man, The Man Who, whatever
«The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.»
Author: Thomas Merton
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Love,
Reflection
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be, beginning, find, fit, fitter, image, Imaged, Image An, Image The, imaging, is, let, let in, let up, love, my image, not, of her own, only, on her own, otherwise, our own, own, perfectly, reflection, The, Them, themselves, The Beginning, The Twist, this image, those, twist, twisting, twists
«The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.»
«We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!»
Author: Tennessee Williams
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all of, All of Us, confinement, our own, sentenced, sentencing, skinned, skinning, skins, solitary, solitary confinement
«We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell»
«The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
boundless, confidence, confidences, confidence man, genius, inspires, our own, powers, The Man
«Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Faith,
Winning
| Keywords:
above, Above and Beyond, denied, endurance, fate, Masters, our own, pang, pangs, task, The Longest Day, The Task, toiled, toiling, toils, unconquerable, victory, win
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