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- The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
- Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas
- The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
- Anonymous
- Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
- Unknown
- Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.
- Daisaku Ikeda
- Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.
- Koran, (c. 651 AD)
- Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- John Dykes
- The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
- There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
- Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
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