The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

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There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

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My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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dont let the old break you; let the love make you.

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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

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