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It's not who you are, it's what you do that matters
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Todd Cloutier
Contribution #3820
We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren’t always two sides. Sometimes there’s only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored.
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The Gotham Skeptic
Barry Leiba
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"Faulty Logic: False Dichotomy""
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Viewed on January 15, 2010
Contribution #3767
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be. -
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.
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Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.
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Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.
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From the discourses of Pandurang Sahastri Athavale
Contribution #3392
Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.
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I try to believe what I have to believe, not what I want to believe.
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It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.
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At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness....
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The Life of Henri Brulard
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Contribution #3067
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
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Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
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In the world to come, I shall not be asked, "Why were you not Moses?" I shall be asked, "Why were you not Zusya?"
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O Son of Dust! Verily I say unto thee: Of all men the most negligent is he that disputeth idly and seeketh to advance himself over his brother. Say, O brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.
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The Hidden Words
Persian
#5
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Contribution #2699
Do not decide that someone is good until you see how he or she acts at home.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2623
When I wake up in the morning, I want to know that my family, friends and fans know what I believe in and what I’m all about. That’s what should be important.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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For humans, the challenge is to unite soul and role, to discover the hidden wholeness that enables us to be in the world who we are in our souls, and to act in accordance with our deepest and truest natures.
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Lincoln's Own Stories
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Contribution #2444
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
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Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Small people delight in what they call consistency--that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown--that they have not developed--and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
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And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Bible
Malachi
3:5
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Contribution #1908
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred.
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Contribution #1736
The gentleman first practices what he preaches and then preaches what he practices.
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
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To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
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Practice meditation sincerely and you will realize His infinite grace. God wants sincerity, truthfulness and love. Outward verbal effusions do not touch Him.
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Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are.
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.
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lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
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Pascal Blaise
Viewed on April 14, 2008
Contribution #709
Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
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William James
Viewed on April 14, 2008
Contribution #708
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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George Bernard Shaw
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #474
Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!
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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Viewed on April 1, 2008
Contribution #408
A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
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Bob Harrington
Viewed on April 1, 2008
Contribution #405
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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Benjamin Franklin
Viewed on April 8, 2008
Contribution #267
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Viewed on April 8, 2008
Contribution #263
What does integrity look like in a person?
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