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When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
- Thomas Jefferson
Politeness is organized indifference.
- Paul Valery
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor,
it covers the natural want of it,
and ends by rendering habitual a substitute
nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
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So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so,
a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
- Thomas Jefferson
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle
The cleansing fire of Spirit
consumes the troubles of this world.
Feed your concerns to the fire.
Breathe deeply and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world just IS, and we all have our stories about it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Relax. Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
As spirits they belong to the eternal world,
but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
Life is about more than today, and more than yourself.
What will your legacy be?
What will your great-grandchildren be told about you?
Creating a legacy does not have to be a burden,
it can be your joy and can create
your satisfaction with living each day.
What kind of world do you want to leave your great-grandchildren?
What can you do today to help create that world?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
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