As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

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The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

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Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.

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Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

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Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

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It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

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Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.

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The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

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If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.

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