Karl G. Maeser Quotes
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.
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Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
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When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
