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We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. ↗

— Keith Haring

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I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence. ↗

— King Hussein I

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The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. ↗

— George Orwell

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It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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