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«There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion»
«Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.»
«Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.»
«Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.»
«The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.»
«Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.»
«The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.»
«The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.»
«The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.»
Author: Lao Tzu (Philosopher) | About: Theft | Keywords: Laws, order, prominent, robbers, thieves, thieving
«The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.»

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