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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Good, Power

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney

Yourself, Else, Makes

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
C. S. Lewis

Yourself, Thinking, Humility

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa

Ocean, Ourselves, Missing

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

Love, Friendship, Good

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

Two, Difference, Took

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Abraham Lincoln

Business, Try, Read

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela

Life, Passion, Small

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson

Power, Hope, Wisdom

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

Fear, Pain, Feelings

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
Dalai Lama

Simple, Describe, Buddhist

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill

Won, General, Greater

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Mark Twain

Two, Group, Accomplish

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
Winston Churchill

Church, Army, Suit

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran

Giving, Pride, Taking

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Ignorance, Nothing

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill

Victory, Problems, Difficult

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

Long, Far, Action

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie

Life, Time, Fear

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Men, Attention, Older

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter, Laugh, Both

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
Indira Gandhi

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee

Powerful, Effort, Faster

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma Gandhi

Human, Thought, Action

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde

Sympathy, Trouble

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

Religion, Him, Put

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce Lee

True, Nothing, Special

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Courage, Moment

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Woman, Become

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin

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