hang your hat on something
1. to depend on something The company’s earnings were up 70% last year, but I don’t think you can hang your hat on that kind of growth.
2. to believe something It’s hard to hang your hat on a lack of money as the real reason they didn’t take the trip.
via hang hat on – Idioms – by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia..
las⋅civ⋅i⋅ous
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–adjective
1. inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
2. arousing sexual desire: lascivious photographs.
3. indicating sexual interest or expressive of lust or lewdness: a lascivious gesture.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L lascīvi(a) playfulness, wantonness (lascīv(us) playful, wanton + -ia -ia ) + -ous
Related forms:
las⋅civ⋅i⋅ous⋅ly, adverb
las⋅civ⋅i⋅ous⋅ness, noun
via Lascivious Definition | Definition of Lascivious at Dictionary.com.
He encouraged the boy not to feel that he was sick. He urged him not to feel alone. It was a onetime occurrence strictly intended to speak to the heart of this one child. There is no evidence that this man has committed any wrongdoing, nor is there any compelling evidence that cross-dressers are inherently lascivious, and the defendant knows that. Cross-dressing is but a pretext that the defendant has hung its hat on to disguise the fact that Gil Furnald was terminated because he is gay. Last time I checked, it was not a firing offense for a civilian to be either ho, mo or sexual.
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ac·tiv·ism (āk’tə-vĭz’əm)
: a doctrine or practice that emphasizes direct vigorous action especially in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial issue
n. The use of direct, often confrontational action, such as a demonstration or strike, in opposition to or support of a cause.
ac·tiv·ist’ic adj.
via Activistic Definition | Definition of Activistic at Dictionary.com.
com⋅mence⋅ment
–noun
1. an act or instance of commencing; beginning: the commencement of hostilities.
2. the ceremony of conferring degrees or granting diplomas at the end of the academic year.
3. the day on which this ceremony takes place.
Origin:
1225–75; ME < AF, OF. See commence, -ment
via Commencement Definition | Definition of Commencement at Dictionary.com.
in⋅dis⋅cre⋅tion
–noun
1. lack of discretion; imprudence.
2. an indiscreet act, remark, etc.
Origin:
1300–50; ME < LL indiscrētiōn- (s. of indiscrētiō). See in- 3 , discretion
Related forms:
in⋅dis⋅cre⋅tion⋅ar⋅y, adjective
via Indiscretions Definition | Definition of Indiscretions at Dictionary.com.
ex⋅alt⋅ed, ex⋅alt
–verb (used with object)
1. to raise in rank, honor, power, character, quality, etc.; elevate: He was exalted to the position of president.
2. to praise; extol: to exalt someone to the skies.
3. to stimulate, as the imagination:
4. to intensify, as a color: complementary colors exalt each other.
5. Obsolete. to elate, as with pride or joy.
Related forms:
ex⋅alt⋅er, noun
Synonyms:
1. promote, dignify, raise, ennoble. See elevate. 2. glorify.
Antonyms:
1. humble. 2. depreciate.
–adjective
1. raised or elevated, as in rank or character; of high station: an exalted personage.
2. noble or elevated; lofty: an exalted style of writing.
3. rapturously excited.
Related forms:
ex⋅alt⋅ed⋅ly, adverb
Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted. – Thomas Carlyle
The lyrics of Shakespeare exalted the audience.
ex⋅alt⋅ed⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:
1. sublime, grand.
via Exalted Definition | Definition of Exalted at Dictionary.com.
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
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“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” – Dorothy Thompson
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill
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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. – Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”- Mahatma Gandhi
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
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“You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’ ” – George Bernard Shaw
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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. – Martin Luther King Jr.
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“True love is neither physical, nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be. Peace is seeing the sunset and knowing who to thank. The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have. Life isn’t about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.” – Unknown
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“There is a reason it is much rarer to share companionship in the storms than in the sunshine. Choose your company by the former over the latter.” – Anonymous
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“Don’t love people any less in the sunshine, but measure them in the darkness and the storms. Courage, loyalty and trust are virtues more difficult to keep.” – Anonymous
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“Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen but understanding it for the first time.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” – John Cotton Dana
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“It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness.” – Christopher Society
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. – Martin Luther King Jr.
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Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! – Bob Marley
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. – Henry David Thoreau
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Courage is knowing what not to fear. – Plato
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once…
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…Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. – William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”, Act 2 scene 2
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“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” – E.B. White
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“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.” – Voltaire
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“The basis of optimism is sheer terror”. – Oscar Wilde
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“To be free / Is often to be lonely.” – W.H. Auden
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“Maybe life is lonely too often, but it is good. Loneliness teaches one self-discipline and about their identity, some very worthy knowledge. Harden up, buckle in, grab a good book and a tea when times are slow. Reach out and live life to its fullest whenever the twinkle arises.” – Anonymous
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The softest pillow is a clear conscience. – N.R. Narayana Murthy, Infosys
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If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. – Oscar Wilde
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“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of a crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you – Lao Tzu
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People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway. – Mother Teresa
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“I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then someday, far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer.” – Unknown
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I believe everything happens for a reason! People change so you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so that you will eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes, good things fall apart, so better things can fall together – Marilyn Monroe
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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
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“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, ‘That is all there was!’ But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.” – Victor Hugo
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“If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. -Thomas Jefferson
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
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“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
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“It teaches the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid. To be proud and unbowed in defeat yet humble and gentle in victory. And to master ourselves before we attempt to master others. And to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep. And to give the predominance of courage over timidity.” – General Douglas MacArthur on Athletics
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Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted. – Thomas Carlyle
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything. – Malcolm X
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“To be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else – is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” – E.E. Cummings
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God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr adapted to AA
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde
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“It is always the secure who are humble.” – G.K. Chesterton
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. – Oscar Wilde
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A true friend stabs you in the front. – Oscar Wilde
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
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You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. – Unknown
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Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. – Unknown
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.” – Thomas Carlyle
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“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” – Robert Quillen
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“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.” – Anais Nin
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies. – Aristotle
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“Never complain and never explain.” – Benjamin Disraeli
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“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” – Claude Levi-Strauss
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“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” – Thomas Stearns Eliot
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“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” – Nelson Mandela
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“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton
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“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
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“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
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“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do..” – Mark Twain
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“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
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“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
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“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
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“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
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(funny) “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
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“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. – Eric Hoffer
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain
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“Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.” – Sir Arthur Helps
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Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde
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“The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.” – Frantois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. – Oscar Wilde
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. – Oscar Wilde
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Women are made to be loved, not understood. – Oscar Wilde
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Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat. – Oscar Wilde
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. – Martin Luther King Jr.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hope of its children. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it has any evil in it; but whether it has more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.” – Abraham Lincoln
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“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” – Gandhi
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Having a grievance or resentment is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy. – Nelson Mandela
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There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. – Luther King Jr.
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Today more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal Responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. – The Dalai Lama
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Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. – John F. Kennedy
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“There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.” – Gandhi
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“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither. – Benjamin Franklin
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Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. – Oscar Wilde
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“Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right…” – Judge Learned Hand
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“A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.” – H.W. Beecher
“A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.”- Hunt
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“If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you’ll get along better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” -Atticus Finch, played by Gregory Peck. To Kill a Mockingbird
hu⋅bris
–noun
excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
Also, hybris.
Compare sophrosyne.
Origin:
1880–85; < Gk hýbris insolence
Related forms:
hu⋅bris⋅tic, adjective
via Hubris Definition | Definition of Hubris at Dictionary.com.
so⋅phros⋅y⋅ne
–noun
moderation; discretion; prudence.
Opposite of hubris.
Wikipedia
a Greek philosophical term etymologically meaning moral sanity and from there self control or moderation guided by true self-knowledge.
Origin:
< Gk sōphrosýnē, deriv. of sphrōn prudent
via Sophrosyne Definition | Definition of Sophrosyne at Dictionary.com.
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