Bryant H. McGill Quotes
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Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.
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Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.
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The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
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The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.
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When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.
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Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
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Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
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Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
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Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.
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The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
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There is no happiness outside of ourselves.
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When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.
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It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
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Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?
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You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.
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Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
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Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
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There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
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Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
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The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
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Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.
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There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
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Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.