"Never promise more than you can perform."

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“It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.”

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“God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.”

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“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”

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— Theodore Roosevelt

Politics1858–1919

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— Nick Bostrom

Philosophy1973

#ethics

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— Elliot Rodger

1991–2014

#justice

"Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better."

— Swami Vivekananda

Religion1863–1902

#truth