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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life Wise People Men Way See Something Both Observation Wise Men Beyond Non-Existence Existence Middle Transcends Either Them Ignorant Ignorant People
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life Good Long Matters Tale How
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Trust Conservatives Liberals
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Angry Anger Part Sinners Sins Mankind Large Large Part
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man Action Risk He Himself Which Urges Who Wary
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man Wind Seeks He Knows Any Harbor Right
I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define. Madeleine Albright
Good People Better Innocent Evil Sense Think Enough Innocent People Define About Absolute Could Know Sort Sure Little Certainly Less Harder
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature Fool Every Only Error Person
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Guide Excess Never Go Moderation Your
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. Marcus Tullius Cicero
God Food Religion Soul World Seen Sees Gives Bears Feeds Just Endures Body Fills
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything. Marcus Tullius Cicero
God Nothing Everything Next
Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that. Mikhail Gorbachev
Arrogance Sometimes Mistakes Own Difficult Punished Recognise Guilty Must Accept
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight. Mikhail Gorbachev
Terrorism Fight Political Think Solve Through Leaders Force Terror Still Political Leaders Done Cannot Breeding Ground Things
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. Nikita Khrushchev
Nature Man States Rulers Rather Gives Support Hanged Rope United United States
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes. Nikita Khrushchev
Respect Economics Wishes Does Subject Greatly
Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail. Owen Arthur
Service Good Great Battle Cause Will Conviction Those Never Fail Go Labour Us Fortified Good Cause Who Forward Let Us
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it. Pericles
Wealth Poverty Admit About Something Properly Rather Shame No-One Taking Practical Real Escape Than Regard Ashamed Boast Used Measures Need
We do not want riches, we want peace and love. Red Cloud
Love Peace Want Riches Peace And Love
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world. Red Cloud
Great Me World Better Will Spirit Shall Better Off He Put Great Spirit Make Because Am Off Than Where Place Ignorant Suffer
Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God. Robert Grosseteste
God You Will Pleasure Those All Things Shall Know Household Faithfully Often Against Prefer Your Who Serve Things
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. Robert Jackson
Dissent Those Unanimity Find Only Compulsory Soon Opinion Begin Achieves Unification Themselves Who Coercive Graveyard Elimination
I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need. Robert Mugabe
Speak World Language Conviction United Nations Only Charter Glad Deliver Share Development Fair Principles Am Issues Same Just Nations Order China Many United Based World Order Zimbabwe Need
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. Robert Mugabe
History Suffering Made Enough Punishment Only Colonial New Also Were Uprooted Helpless Slaves
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy. Robert Mugabe
East Deliberately Hostile Look Most Policy West Times Being Us Started Recent
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones. Robert Mugabe
Other Constitutional Methods Than May Use Necessary
Rich people are afraid to die. Rodrigo Duterte
People Rich Die Afraid Rich People
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