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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
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Jean Paul
German poet (ps. of Johann P.F. Richter)
1763-1825
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
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Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
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A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
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Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
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Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
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Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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