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I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes. ↗

— James W. Black

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I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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