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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgments simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Edward de Bono

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Laurence J. Peter

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Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.

Mark Nepo

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If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.

John A. Sandford

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There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in ...

Leonard Cohen

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Marian Wright Edelman

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

William James

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Herbert Spencer

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It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

Pema Chodron

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

Pema Chodron

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It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

Eleanor Roosevelt (more)

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The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

Ruth Stout

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Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.

Peggy Noonan

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We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and trasmit data -- the lowest cognitive form -- has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

Dee Hock

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

Joseph Campbell

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It is at once evident that a religion which is able to make vital connection with a world-view based on the principles inherent in evolution, democracy, and science will be a new thing under the sun.

A. Eustace Haydon

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Seneca

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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself; conservatism is debonnair and social; reform is individual and imperious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (more)

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.

Lama Surya Das

You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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