"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
-Eric Hoffer
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"When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.“
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"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
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"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."
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"The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future."
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"In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
-Khalil Gibran
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
-Carl Jung
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