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If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others.

—Tryon Edwards in A Dictionary of Thoughts

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It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

—Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man

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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

—Doug Larson

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I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does

—Virginia Peterson

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

—Tennessee Williams

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How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

—R.A. Salvatore

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And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

—John Steinbeck

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We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

—Mary Parker Follett

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Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.

—Paul Valéry

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People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions
in the past.

—Tryon Edwards

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You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing.

—Peace Pilgrim

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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.

—Sydney Smith

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The moral high ground is wreathed in fog.

—Arthur Miller

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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

—George Santayana

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