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Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ↗

— Billy Graham

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But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them. ↗

— Barack Obama

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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen. ↗

— Pindar

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It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. ↗

— Max Planck

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I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination. ↗

— Howard Zinn

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A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

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Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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