Bryant H. McGill Quotes
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Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.
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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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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
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There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
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Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
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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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Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.
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When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.
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The common person fears to think beyond the common.
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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 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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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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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.
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Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.
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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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There is no happiness outside of ourselves.
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You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.
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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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Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
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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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Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
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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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Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
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Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.