A Quote by P. D. James
It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
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To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.
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When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
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I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.
Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.
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The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.
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Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.
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