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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Love, Care, Children

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Ready, Quit

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.
Hillary Clinton

America, Problem, Solve

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
Marianne Williamson

Goal, Key, Intimacy

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee

Dreams, Time, Lost

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes

Single, Doubt, Accept

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
Suze Orman

Life, Happiness, Courage

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God, Greatness, Security

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Strong, Often, False

What is true belongs to me!
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.
Paula Radcliffe

Yourself, Strong, Rude

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
Morihei Ueshiba

Peace, Art, Mind

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell

Poetry, Sense, Spirit

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly

Health, Character, Wife

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Orison Swett Marden

Work, Character, Value

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
Lisa See

Friendship, Time, Off

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle

Life, Question, Gain

The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

Days, Books, University

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
George Orwell

Become, Myths, Tend

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Sigmund Freud

Home, Nothing, Decide

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustine

Nor, False, Badly

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
Julia Roberts

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
Richard Branson

Business, Yourself, Ideas

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Victor Hugo

Women, Name, Slavery

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke

Liberty, Away, Danger

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Your spirit is the true shield.
Morihei Ueshiba

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell

Age, Feelings, Seems

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Anatole France

Life, Poor, Poverty

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
William James

Faith, Live, Enough

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
George Orwell

Good, Nothing, Write

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