"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."
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"Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.“
-Hermann Hesse
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"The truth is lived, not taught."
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"I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me."
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"I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength."
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"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
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