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“Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success.”

May Blessing Worthy Bless Pins God Bless God Bless You

Author:Yasser Arafat

“Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.”

Ifs May Character Doors Example Benefits Highest Importance Worthy Opening Instruction Imitation Courtesy Enabling

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.”

May Seems Tears Shining Rewards Worthy Bees Toil Nectar

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.”

May Art Ideas Wish Worthy Profession Painter Remembered Niche Exalted

Author:Samuel Morse

“We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.”

Source: Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind