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«He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool - shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple - teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep - wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise - follow him.»
«This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community /the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
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«However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not bad... it looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults, even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may have perhaps so»
«Prince, a precept I'd leave for you, Coined in Eden, existing yet: Skirt the parlor, and shun the zoo, Women and elephants never forget»
«Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Big Picture, epic, epics, eschew, eschewed, guys, monumental, paint, paint a picture, pictures, shun, shunned, shunning, The Big Picture
«Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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Debt
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burthen, debts, discharge, exertions, likewise, occasioned, occasions, posterity, shunning, throwing, unavoidable, vigorous
«I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody [to no one].»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
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«O! that way madness lies; let me shun that.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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madness, shun, shunned, shunning