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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness Freedom Key Action
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant
Education Ignorance Own Progressive Our Discovery
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. James Truslow Adams
Best Good Fault Rest Worst Bad Find Any Us Much Ill
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy Socialism Equality Liberty Word Nothing One Word Seeks Restraint Common Difference While Notice Servitude
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. Alexis de Tocqueville
Day Money Will Congress Until Discovers American Endure Republic Public American Republic Bribe
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. Alexis de Tocqueville
Religion Liberty Impossible Other Minds Combine Conceive Make Without American Them Notions
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. Alexis de Tocqueville
Patriotism Nation Other Faults Lies Ability Rather More Repair Greatness Than America Any Being Her Enlightened
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams
Teacher Tell Never He His Affects Stops Influence Where Eternity
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. Hannah Arendt
Truth Liar Hide Trouble Lying Entirely Clear Wishes Efficiency Deceiver Deceiving Depends Notion
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. Edward Gibbon
Work Our Capabilities Presentation
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge Ignorance Illusion Obstacle Greatest Greatest Obstacle Discovery
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. Alexis de Tocqueville
Freedom Equality Would Rather Equal Enamored Than Unequal American Slavery
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. Alexis de Tocqueville
Future Darkness Past Walks Spirit Longer Illuminates
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. Carter G. Woodson
Teacher History Lose Those Record Inspiration Accomplished Which Teaching Who Biography
There is a saying that if you get something for free, you should know that you're the product. It was never more true than in the case of Facebook and Gmail and YouTube. You get free social-media services, and you get free funny cat videos. In exchange, you give up the most valuable asset you have, which is your personal data. Yuval Noah Harari
Funny Saying You Facebook Videos Valuable Free YouTube Valuable Asset Case Give Something Data More Cat Exchange Never True Know Most Up Than Get Personal Which Should Product Your Asset Services
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. Carter G. Woodson
History World Thought Negligible Danger Worthwhile Factor Becomes Tradition Being Race Stands
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. Carter G. Woodson
You Man Control Thinking Worry About His Actions
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. Henry Adams
Day Science World Power Suicide Some Existence Up Blowing Commit May Human Race Mankind Human Race
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. Will Durant
Liberty Chaos Civilization Begins Dies Order Grows
Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos, until you're just unable to focus. Yuval Noah Harari
Funny You Censorship Videos Focus Immense Unable Hiding Cat Misinformation Longer Until Irrelevant Just Information Works Flooding Amount
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. Arthur Helps
Inspirational Spiritual Surrender Heart Chill Will High Environment Feet Refuse Soar Average Your Ground Keep
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt
Totalitarianism Propaganda Only Attracted Masses Mob Won Itself Momentum Elite
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Hannah Arendt
Sad Truth Good Truth Is People Evil Sad Truth Minds Never Most Make Make Up Up Done Who
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. Hannah Arendt
Leader Become Admit Never He Mass Qualification Infallibility Error Chief Unending
Forgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself. Tara Westover
Forgiveness You Anger Yourself Value Think Absence Also Self-Love Begin Just Actually Presence
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. Tacitus
Truth Truth Is Delay Haste Uncertainty Inspection Falsehood Confirmed
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