All the known world, ...

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.