"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."
-Maurice Maeterlinck
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"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.“
-Maurice Maeterlinck
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"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."
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"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."
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"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."
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"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."
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"Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence."
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"If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive."
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"And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe."
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"The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation."
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