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"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."
-- Abraham Lincoln
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"Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."
--- Albert Einstein
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"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
--- Martin Luther King Jr.
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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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"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals hischaracter."
--- Arthur Schopenhauer
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"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."
-- Hank Aaron
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"We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage."
-- Aristotle
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