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“Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.”

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“No one is charismatic. Someone becomes charismatic in history, socially. The question for me is once again the problem of humility. If the leader discovers that he is becoming charismatic not because of his or her qualities but because mainly he or she is being able to express the expectations of a great mass of people, then he or she is much more of a translator of the aspirations and dreams of the people, instead of being the creator of the dreams. In expressing the dreams, he or she is recreating these dreams. If he or she is humble, I think that the danger of power would diminish.”

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Book:We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

Source: We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

“Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.”

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Book:Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

Source: Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

“Trying to show that you have mental illness to somebody who’s never had it is like trying to describe a new color to the colorblind”

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Book:The Zenas Cure

Source: The Zenas Cure

“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private life, or, in public affairs, by some denunciatory act against what we are pleased to call our neighbour's vices might yet have been unwoven by the hand of sympathy.”

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Book:A Christmas Sermon

Source: A Christmas Sermon

“The 'HIGHway' to peace is humility!”

Book:Back to Single

Source: Back to Single

“By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not. (Joshua Malina, Sports Night)”

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Author:Aaron Sorkin

“Pride is yet again in the way of our mind’s ability to accept that we may not be the most intelligent and advanced people in the universe or on Earth since it was formed along with the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.”

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Book:Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

Source: Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

“a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.”

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Book:The Black Banner

Source: The Black Banner

“We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unravel this. We honour it by letting it be that way forever.” The quote of a grandmother explaining The Great Mystery of the universe to her grandson.”

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Book:Indian Horse

Source: Indian Horse

“Women’s bodies are so often under the purview of men, whether it’s our reproductive organs, our sexuality, our weight, our manner of dress. There is a freedom found in decomposition, a body rendered messy, chaotic, and wild. I relish this image when visualizing what will become of my future corpse.”

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Book:From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Source: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death