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• When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Morning

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.

  Thomas Friedman

  Service Culture, People, Hey

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• If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.

  Sam Walton

  Service Culture, Giving, Stores

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• It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.

  Napoleon Hill

  Thinking, Service Culture, Important

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.148, John Wiley and Sons

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• If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

  Aristotle

  Government, Action, Virtue

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3120, Delphi Classics

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• Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Blessed, Men

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1737, Princeton University Press

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• It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Happy Life, Self

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• Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Stronger, Asking

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3104, Delphi Classics

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• All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

  Aristotle

  Eye, Men, Wish

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• Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.

  Aristotle

  Kings, Order, Law

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

  Aristotle

  Government, Law, Justice

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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• Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

  Aristotle

  Men, Thinking, Law

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• As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

  Aristotle

  Children, Husband, Loss

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.192, Cambridge University Press

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• If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  Drama, Responsibility, Humanity

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• If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.

  Winston Churchill

  Two, Three, Investing

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• If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

  George Orwell

  Investing, Results, Feels

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• If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Eye, Buddhism

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• Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don't want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should be a point where you let go. Settle down. Get off the train of thought for a while.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Train Of Thought

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• Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Summer, Strong

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1838). “Oliver Twist: Or, The Parish Boy's Progress”

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• If it's good enough for beagles, it's good enough for me.

  Richard Littlejohn

  Smoking, Good Enough, Beagles

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• Would you put a pastrami in your mouth if you didn't want to eat it?

  Jackie Mason

  Drug, Mouths, Want

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• Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.

  Kenya Hara

  Creativity, Unique, Giving

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• I've been watching basketball for a long time, I'm a historian of the game. I don't know any other team that's gotten to the Finals without two All-Stars... I cannot remember thinking of it. I don't even know if it's ever happened, for a team to lose two All-Stars and still be able to make it to the Finals.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Stars, Team

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• If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?

  Bob Costas

  Nba Championships, Lasts, Jordan

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• I continue to be amazed by our bodies' ability for self-repair. ... Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That's what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it's never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier.

  Michael Greger

  Cancer, Exercise, Self

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