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It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.


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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
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I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think I'm on the right path.
Katie Taylor
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
Shimon Peres
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
James Madison
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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.


Don Herold
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Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.


Voltaire
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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.


Alice Walker
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The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.
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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.


Bill Bradley
I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.
Brad Grey
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The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.
Willie Mays
I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.
Charles Trevelyan
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
John Burroughs
I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
Pat Toomey