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The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them. ↗

— Dean Rusk

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We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked. ↗

— Dean Rusk

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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. ↗

— John Ruskin

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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. ↗

— John Ruskin

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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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