Regards,
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"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." -- Groucho Marx.
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"Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot."
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"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."
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"Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot."
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"Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it."
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"On the other hand, you have different fingers."
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"I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left."
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"I only speak for myself -- that's enough trouble."
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The ethical foundation of humanism: "I'm pullin' for ya. We're all in this together." --Red Green.
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"The insight comes when you realize don't have to actually DO what the little voices in your head tell you to do."
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"Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before."
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"When authorities warn you about the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities." -- Matt Groening.
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"If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it."
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"He who laughs last thinks slowest."
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"Hey sailor, need your firmware verified?"
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"If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum."
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"There's a thin line between Deep Thought and light sleep...."
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"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others."
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"If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before."
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"Borrow money from pessimists--they don't expect it back."
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"On the other hand, the early worm gets eaten."
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"The worst thing about censorship is [deleted by censorship department]."
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"Given a conflict, Murphy's law trumps Newton's."
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"Ask not for whom the bell tolls, let the machine get it."
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"Explosives might be applicable where truth and logic fail."
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"You're never too old to learn something stupid."
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"Hire a teenager while they still know it all..."
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"When everything comes your way, you're in the wrong lane."
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"Enough research will tend to support your theory."
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"Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat."
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"One good turn gets most of the blankets."
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"When all else fails, follow instructions."
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"No job is so simple that it can't be done wrong."
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"If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws."
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"Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies."
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"When in doubt, give advice."
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"Good generally conquers evil. Unless, of course, good is stupid."
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"Fool-proof implies a finite number of fools."
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"Make something foolproof and someone will find a bigger fool."
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"The survival value of human intelligence has yet to be proven."
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"Beware the fury of a patient woman."
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"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." -- Robert X. Cringely.
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"I dislike quotations. Tell me what you know." --Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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"Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana." --Groucho Marx
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"Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed."
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"Amateurs worry about tactics. Dilettantes worry about strategy. Professionals worry about logistics."
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"The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required on it."
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"Life not only begins at forty, it also begins to show."
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"I'm in shape. Round's a shape..."
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"I worry that whoever thought up the term 'quality control' thought that if we didn't control it, it would get out of hand." --Lily Tomlin.
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"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
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"The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer." - Ancient Egyptian Wisdom, 2200 B.C.
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"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline.  It helps if you have some kind of football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." --  Frank Zappa.
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"Now, thrice welcome Christmas! which brings us good cheer: mince pies & plum pudding- strong Ale & strong Beer" -Christmas poem, 1695.
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"Let no man thirst for good beer." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1823), American Revolutionary Patriot.
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"Oh, lager beer! It makes good cheer, And proves the poor man's worth; It cools the body through and through, and regulates the health."
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"Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer." --Dave Barry.
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"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind." --Humphrey Bogart.
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"Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill.
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"If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs." --David Daye.
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"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her." --W.C. Fields.
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"Everybody has to believe in something.....I believe I'll have another drink." --W.C. Fields.
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"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Benjamin Franklin (attrib.).
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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --Ernest Hemingway.
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"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." --For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingway.
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"They who drink beer will think beer." --Washington Irving.
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"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer." --Abraham Lincoln.
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"We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old." --Martin Luther.
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"I drink to make other people interesting." --George Jean Nathan.
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"May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends gathered below never fall out." --Old Irish Blessing.
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"He was a wise man who invented beer." --Plato.
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"This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption... Beer!" --Friar Tuck, in 'Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves.'
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"Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire." --David Rains Wallace.
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"Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world." --Kaiser Wilhelm.
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"Work is the curse of the drinking class." --Oscar Wilde.
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"Who does not love beer, wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long." --Carl Worner.
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"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." --Henny Youngman.
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"There can't be good living where there is not good drinking." --Benjamin Franklin.
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"There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation." --John Ciardi.
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"A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure." --Czech Proverb.
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"Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chambers of my brain -- Quaintest thoughts -- queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today." -- Edgar Allen Poe.
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"The church is near, but the road is icy. The bar is far away, but I will walk carefully." --Russian proverb.
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"Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where." --- Omar Khayyan, The Rubiay'at.
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"You from within our glasses, you lusty golden brew, whoever imbibes takes fire from you. The young and the old sing your praises. Here's to beer, here's to cheer, here's to beer." --- Bedrich Smetana, The Bartered Bride.
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"Say for what were hopyards meant. 
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of English Brews
Livelier liquor than the muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think."

--- A.E. Housman.
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"Wherever beer is brewed, all is well-wherever beer is drunk, life is good." --- Czech proverb.
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"Fermentation and civilization are inseparable." --- John Ciardi.
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"A quart of ale is a dish for a king." --- William Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale.
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"A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation." --- William Blake, (1757 - 1827).
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"From man's sweat and God's love, beer came into the world." --- Saint Arnoldus.
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"God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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"The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be." --- George Orwell.
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"Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer." --- Henry Lawson.
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"Wine is but single broth, ale is meat, drink, and cloth." ---16th c. English Proverb.
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"Beer, if drunk in moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health." --- Thomas Jefferson.
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"Beer does not make itself properly by itself. It takes an element of mystery and of things that no one can understand." --- Fritz Maytag.
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"There is more to life than beer alone, but beer makes those other things even better." --- Stephen Morris.
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"A little bit of beer is divine medicine." --- Paracelsus, Greek physician.
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"Beer ... a high and mighty liquor." --- Julius Caesar.
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"A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food." --- Elizabeth I.
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"He that drinketh strong beer and goes to bed right mellow, lives as he ought to live and dies a hearty fellow." --- Anonymous.
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"It's a fair wind that blew men to ale." --- Washington Irving.
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"Tis hard to tell which is best: music, food, beer or rest." --- Anonymous.
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"The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets." --- Henry David Thoreau.
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"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer." --- Brendan Behan.
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"The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. " --- A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, 1896.
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"When the pilgrims, seeking religious freedom, landed at Plymouth rock, the first permanent building put up was the brewery." --- Jim West.
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"A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is in love." --- Antiphanes, 408-344 BCE.
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"Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals." --- Pierre de Beaumarchais.
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"It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer." --Frederick the Great.
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"Beer - Because one doesn't solve the world's problems over white wine."
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"Beer - It is the drink of men who think, 
And feel no fear nor fetter; 
Who do not drink to senseless sink, 
But drink to think the better.  -- Anon.
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"The great progressive struggles in our history have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich, share in the benefits of a free society." -- Bill Moyers.
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"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." --Benjamin Franklin.
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"If anyone is "ruining" the American family, it's all the employers who refuse to recognize that their employees have family responsibilities, as well as jobs." -- Barbara Ehrenreich.
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"My creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so." -- Robert G. Ingersoll.
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"If you enjoy what you do you'll never work another day in your life." -- Confucius (551-479 BCE).
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"Surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!" -- Louise Bogan.
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 "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." -- Thomas Paine.
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"Irreverence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is."
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"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."  -- Franz Kafka.
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"The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
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"When my information changes, I change my opinion. What do you do, Sir?"  -- John Maynard Keynes.
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"You cannot develop a personality with Physics alone, the rest of life must be worked in." --Richard Feynmann (1918 - 1988).
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"In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth." -- Richard Feynmann (1918 - 1988).
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"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it down again on something solid." --G. K. Chesterton.
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"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into." -- Jonathan Swift.
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"In our post-factual world . . . conclusions have become immune to facts; for too many, the only facts that are valid are those that confirm what they already "know" to be true." -- Jay Bookman.
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"I wonder how many Einsteins have been permanently discouraged through competitive examinations and the forced feeding of curricula." -- Carl Sagan
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." -- Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
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"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -- B. F. Skinner, (1904 - 1990).
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -- Aristotle (384 - 322 BC).
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." --Charles Darwin.
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"Obstacles are those things that appear when you lose sight of your goal." --Henry Ford.
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"Education is when we read the fine print.  Experience is what we get if we don't"  --Pete Seeger.
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"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." --The Dalai Lama .
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"Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes"
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"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan.
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"si duae res sufficient ad ejus veritatem, superfluum est ponere aliam tertiam rem" --William of Ockham (1285-1349)
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"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!" --Henry David Thoreau (1817-62)
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"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book." --Thomas a Kempis, attrib. (1380-1471)
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"Books and marriage go ill together." --Moliere (1622-73)
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"The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing." --Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81)
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." --Joseph Brodsky (1940-96)
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"A man's library is a sort of harem." --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
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"It is difficult not to write satire." --Juvenal (c. 60-130)
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"I have only made this [letter] longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662).
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"What a school thinks about libraries is a measure of what it thinks about education"
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"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
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"Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand wrong answers."
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"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal from many is research."
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. " - Gail Godwin 
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"I am not young enough to know everything. " - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 
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"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. " - Elvis Presley (1935-1977?) 
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. " - Mark Twain (1835-1910) 
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"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. " - Perelman 
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"Our standardized-test-driven schools reward the right answer, not the unsettling question." -- Barbara Ehrenreich.
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"I have always imagined Paradise to be a kind of library." -- Jorges Luis Borges.
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"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -- Ellen Parr.
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"More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide." -- Jonathan Kozol.
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"Many corporate executives earn more money in a couple of hours than the average factory worker makes in a year." -- John Robbins.
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"A time comes when silence is betrayal." -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." -- Carl Sagan .
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"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings." -- Hodding Carter.
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"Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education." -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 
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"The function of freedom is to free someone else." -- Toni Morrison.
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"The people who still say that global warming isn't real are actually in the same boat with the flat earth society. They get together and party on Saturday nights with the folks that believe the moon landing was in a movie lot in Arizona." -- Al Gore.
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"When Congress passes No Child Left Unfed, No Child Without Health Care and No Child Left Homeless, then we can talk seriously about No Child Left Behind." -- Susan Ohanian.
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"The Bible isn't America's holiest book. America doesn't have a holy book. It does have two holy documents, however. One is called the Constitution. The other is known as the Declaration of Independence." -- David Kuo.
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"Wal-Mart is the world's largest employer and one of the worst abusers of its women employees in the U.S. It isn't just that Wal-Mart doesn't pay a living wage; it's that they pay women even less than men in the same positions." -- Thalia Syracopoulos.
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"One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read." -- John Kenneth Galbraith.
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"Virtually every federal agency is now captive to the corporate interests it is supposed to regulate." -- Russ Baker.
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"We are in our seventh year of government by gonads." -- Francis Wilkinson.
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"It is not moderation that redresses the great injustices." -- Anna Quindlen.
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"Critical thought . . . the other national deficit." -- Bumper sticker.
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"Politicians scramble to build more prisons than schools and pay guards more than teachers." -- Robert Scheer.
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"Suppose there is a fire at a fertility clinic. In one room is a freezer with 100 embryos. In another room is a baby. Now, suppose you have only enough time to enter ONE room. Do you save the baby, or the freezer?" -- Dave Johnson.
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"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert.
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"Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed." -- Daniel Gilbert.
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"Politics is what we create out of what we do, what we hope for, what we dare to imagine." -- Paul Wellstone.
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"It's a disgrace that in the 21st century in America, we still have so many people who get sick and die, not because their illnesses aren't treatable, but because they are too poor to see a doctor." -- Andy Stern.
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"The best reason to give a child a good school . . . is so that child will have a happy childhood, and not so that it will help IBM in competing with Sony." -- Jonathan Kozol.
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"Religion is not a two-party system." -- Keila Szpaller.
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"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles." -- Thomas Jefferson.
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"He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how." -- Friedrich Nietzsche. 
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"We become fully human when we are aware of another's suffering as if it were our own." -- D'vorah Kost.
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"You can ignore politics, but you can't escape it." -- Robert Kuttner.
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"If Bush said the earth was flat, the mainstream media would have stories with the headline: 'Shape of the Earth -- Views Differ.' Then they'd quote some Democrats saying that it was round." -- Paul Krugman.
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"The voices of conformity speak so loudly out there. Don't listen. People will tell you what you ought to think and how you ought to feel. They will tell you what to read and how to live. They will urge you to take jobs that they themselves loathe, and to follow safe paths that they themselves find tedious." -- Anna Quindlen.
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"This country is squashing its young. We're sending them to die in a war we don't believe in anymore. We're cheating them so we can offer tax relief to the rich." -- Garrison Keillor.
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"There isn't necessarily two sides to a story if only one side has all the verifiable facts on their side." -- David Sirota.
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"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. Rather, it's the mastery of fear. It's getting to the point where our fears do not stop us from daring to think new thoughts, try new things, take risks, fail, and start again." -- Arianna Huffington. 
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." -- Lao Tzu.
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"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." -- Epicurus.
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies." -- George Bernard Shaw.
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"Teachers open the door, but you enter by yourself." -- Chinese proverb.
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"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from man." -- Ayn Rand.
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"The perfect is the enemy of the good." -- Voltaire.
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"Since the election of Ronald Reagan . . . we've gone from the idea of a government in service to the public interests to a government in service to the wealthy interests." -- Joyce Marcel.
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"Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative." -- Kurt Kleiner.
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"Conservative governance failed, not because of a run of bad luck or a few bad apples, but because it is deficient at its core." -- Paul Waldman.
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"You might as well speak your mind and do what is in your heart because you never know what waits around the corner -- what unforeseen forces are headed your way." -- Arianna Huffington.
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"Faith is not just something you have, it's something you do." -- Barack Obama.
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"No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others." -- Kofi Annan.
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"Until we reign in corporations, no one's wages, benefits or job security are safe." -- Jonathan Tasini. 
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"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming - WOW...  What a Ride!"  -- Anonymous.
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"There exist minds which think as well as you do, but differently." - Larry Niven.
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"This is only temporary, unless it works." -- Red Green.
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"Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon ye who enter here."
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"How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time." -- Fred Brooks, System/360 Chief Designer, IBM.
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"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." -- Lin Yutang.
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"You know when you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand, and Stars.
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"We work in the dark. We do what we can. We give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art." -- Henry James.
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"Go ahead, make mistakes. But make new mistakes; don't keep making the same old ones." -- Robert Page.
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"Why make the same mistake twice, when there are so many new ones available?"
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"May your life preach more loudly than your lips." -- William Ellery Channing.
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"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity." -- Leo Tolstoy.
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"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring." -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"What would happen if we began to take matters into our own hands regarding our own lives and actions? . . . What if we learned to slow down, simplify, savor and make the best of our lives with a little less?" -- Catherine Sundberg.
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"Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. . . . It's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly." -- Kurt Vonnegut.
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"Religion is not a two-party system." -- Keila Szpaller.
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"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles." -- Thomas Jefferson.
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"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative." -- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
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"Sometimes the worst evil is done by good people who do not know that they are not good." -- Reinhold Niebuhr.
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"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man." -- Alan Stewart Paton.
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"Everyone does better when everyone does better." -- Jim Hightower.
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"There are two types of power. Organized money and organized people." -- Linda Jeffers.
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." -- Aesop.
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"God has no religion." -- Mahatma Gandhi.
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"I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person." -- Eduardo Galeano.
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"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." -- Ralph W. Sockman.
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"If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?" -- Shantideva.j
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"In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays I, "Prudence."
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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"What lies behind you and what lies before you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And -- every -- single -- one -- of -- them -- is -- right!" -- Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936], In the Neolithic Age, 1893.
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"Science: (n.) The attempt by subroutines in an operating system to deduce the source code, and write the instruction manual." -- Dave Logan.
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"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said 'Let Newton be' and all was light." -Alexander Pope [1688-1744] "It did not last: the Devil howling, 'Ho! Let Einstein be!' restored the status quo." -Sir John Squire [1884-1958].
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950], Man and Superman, 1903.
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"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" -- Walt Whitman [1819-1892], Song of Myself, 1855.
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"The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department." -- The Real Frank Zappa, 1989.
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"In American work places, bosses routinely snoop into personal e-mails and monitor our web-surfing practices. How did it come about that so many Americans have grown to accept such demeaning intrusions into our privacy?"
-- Phil Rockstroh.
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." -- Andre Gide.
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"No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever." --Daniel J. Boorstin.
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"...to start with a big ball of elementary particles and end up with the duckbill platypus without constant twiddling requires a degree of subtlety and the ability to Think Things Through: exactly the qualities I'm looking for when I'm shopping for a Supreme Being." -- Lee DeRaud.
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"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role." --Eleanor Roosevelt .
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"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82).
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"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82). 
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"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."  -- Susan Ertz.
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"'Business!' cried the Ghost [Jacob Marley], wringing its hands again. 'Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!'"  -- Charles Dickens.
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"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."  -- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968).
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"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next." -- Ursula K. LeGuin.
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."  Eleanor Roosevelt.
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"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."  --Lao Tzu.
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"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."  -- Nelson Mandela.
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"We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory."  -- Bern Williams.
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"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body." -- Margaret Sanger.
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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus
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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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"How does it feel to be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone? " -- Bob Dylan.
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"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." -- George Carlin.
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"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." -- Maya Angelou.
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"An unexamined faith is not worth having." -- James Luther Adams.
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"The traditional analogy of the watch and the watchmaker is inapplicable to a Being absolute, infinite, and eternal. It is, moreover, only another way of explaining nothing." -- Miguel de Unamuno, 1912.
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"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes, The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries..."  -- E. B. Browning (1806-1861), 'Aurora Leigh'.
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"Belief is the wound that knowledge heals." -- Ursula LeGuin (1929 -- ), The Telling.
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"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." --Horace Mann.
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"Morality is doing what is right no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told no matter what is right."
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"If Jesus where here today, there is one thing he wouldn't be - A Christian" -- Mark Twain.
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"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap."  -- Carrie Snow.
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"Be what you wish to seem." --Socrates.
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"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." --Einstein.
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat." --Robert Frost.
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James Nicoll.
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"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices." -- Voltaire.
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"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked." -- Voltaire.
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." --Bill Cosby.
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"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind." -- Marston Bates (1906-1974).
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
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"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood or assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." -- Antoine de Saint Exupery
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"The essence of wisdom is to remain suspicious of what you want to be true. And most suspicious of what you most want to be true." --Jon K. Hart [http://www.gaiachurch.org/quojkh.html].
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"Stop looking for happiness. Try creating it."
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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats" --Albert Schweitzer.
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"How much of the intolerable should I tolerate, simply to be polite?" --Ashleigh Brilliant (c) 1981.
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"The farther you are from home, the bigger an area "home" becomes." --Ashleigh Brilliant (c) 1981. 
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"Even when I'm happy and successful, life still goes on." -- Ashleigh Brilliant (c) 1981.
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"I could do great things, if I weren't so busy doing little things."  -- Ashleigh Brilliant (c) 1981.
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"I was educated once, and it took me years to get over it." -- Ashleigh Brilliant (c) 1981.
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"It sometimes takes longer than one lifetime between knowing what you ought to do and doing it." -- Ashleigh Brilliant (c) 1981.
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"Life is the only game in which the object is to learn the rules." -- Ashleigh Brilliant (c) 1979.
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"Some things supposed to last the rest of my life are already wearing out." -- Ashleigh Brilliant (c) 1981.
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"There is a whole world which I alone rule, but it ends at my fingertips." -- Ashleigh Brilliant (c) 1981.
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"There is madness all about. Shall we fight it, or join in?" -- Ashleigh Brilliant (c) 1981.
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"A person has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it, and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification." -- D. H. Lawrence.
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"The strongest are always the least violent." -- Henry David Thoreau.
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"We trained very hard. But it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing. And what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." -- Gaius Petronius Arbiter, 1st C, CE.
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"To be human is not a fact, but a task." -- Frederick Henry Heinemann.
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"He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands, his head, and his heart is an artist." -- St. Francis of Assisi.
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"Until we test our beliefs, we can't say for sure if we have leeches or we have aspirin." --David Faigman.
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"Integrity is doing what is right when no one is looking." -- Gov. Gray Davis (1942- )  
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"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old when you stop laughing."
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. 
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"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done." -- Fred Allen.
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"The Arithmetic of Cooperation: When you're adding up committees there's a useful rule of thumb: that talents make a difference, and follies make a sum." --Piet Hein.
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"Factories, power plants, resorts we can make anywhere. Wilderness, once we have given it up, is beyond our construction."-- Wallace Stegner.
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"Laughter is the sound that knowledge makes when it's born." -- The Cluetrain Manifesto
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"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte
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What are your car's brakes for? They permit you to drive faster... Control is the key. 
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935).
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"Fascism is capitalism plus murder." --Upton Sinclair, Presidential Agent II (1944).
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"People accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Ben Franklin said it first."
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"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." --Paulo Freire, educator (1921-1997).
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"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority." -- Rita Mae Brown.
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"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever." -- Brian Wilson.
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"It's wonderful how much you can learn when you admit you might not know everything."
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"It's wonderful how much you can accomplish when you decide you don't need to take the credit for it."
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"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." --Leonard Bernstein.
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"No good bridge was ever built without first preparing the foundation; whether to the future or just to the opposite bank."
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"The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe in. " -- Eleanor Roosevelt.
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"Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet." -- Carl Sagan.
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"I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better." --Henry David Thoreau (1817-62).
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"As if you could kill time without injuring Eternity. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." --Henry David Thoreau (1817-62).
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"If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behaviour." --Henry David Thoreau (1817-62).
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"I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove, and am still on their trail." --Henry David Thoreau (1817-62).
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"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes..." --Henry David Thoreau (1817-62).
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"But lo! Men have become the tools of their tools." --Henry David Thoreau (1817-62). 
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"Say only what is true, kind, and necessary -- or at least two out of three."
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"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better." --Richard Hooker, 1554-1600
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"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." --Albert Einstein.
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"The difference between Genius and Stupidity - Genius has its limits." --Albert Einstein.
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." --Albert Einstein.
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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." --John Lennon
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. " - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) 
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"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. " - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) 
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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. " - Galileo Galilei 
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"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. " - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back') 
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"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos 
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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) 
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) 
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"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." - Frank Zappa 
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"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov 
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"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan 
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"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix 
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"A clever man commits no minor blunders." - Goethe (1749-1832) 
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"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire (1694-1778) 
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"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.) 
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"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. " - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) 
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"Wit is educated insolence. " - Aristotle (284-322 B.C.)
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"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities." -- Aldous Huxley.
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 
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"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 
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"The gods too are fond of a joke. " - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) 
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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard P. Feynman.
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"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." -- Gary Zukav, from "The Dancing Wu Li Masters."
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"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."-- Theodosius Dobzhansky, 1973 .
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"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time." Henry David Thoreau
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"We should live our lives so that, if there is no God, it would be a damned shame." Miguel de Unamuno, 1912.
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"Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder." - Leon Kass.
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"Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning." --H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." --Edison, Thomas A (1847-1931) 
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"Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something!" --Edison, Thomas A (1847-1931) 
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"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." --Edison, Thomas A (1847-1931) 
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"Results? I've got lots of results! I know thousands of things that don't work." --Edison, Thomas A (1847-1931) 
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"The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children." --EDWARD VIII (1894-1972, King of England/Duke of Windsor)
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"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies." -- Albert Einstein.
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"Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it." -- Mignon McLaughlin.
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"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly." -- Margaret Mead.
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"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others." -- Jon Postel.
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"A rind is a terrible thing to waste. Compost." -- Bumper sticker.
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"Your time is limited so don't let it be wasted living someone else's life." -- Steve Jobs.
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"All our inventions are but improved means to our unimproved end." -- Henry David Thoreau.
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"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -- Anais Nin.
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"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." --Harry Emerson Fosdick.
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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all" - Oscar Wilde
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"History never looks like history when you are living through it. " - Abe Lincoln.
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"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw. 

"We need men who can dream of things that never were." - John F Kennedy. 
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"There are risks and costs to any action. But they are far less than risks and costs of comfortable inaction." -- John F. Kennedy.
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"You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone....  who can not repay you."
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"Evil is always the assertion of some self-interest without regard to the whole, whether the whole be conceived as the immediate community or the total community of humanity." -- Reinhold Niebuhr.
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"Poverty is the worst form of violence." -- Mahatma Gandhi.
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"In the developed world . . . we speak of nature as if we are not part of it." -- James Carroll.
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"... then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..." -- Plato, _Phaedrus_.
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"Smash forehead on keyboard to continue..."
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"Access denied ... nah nah na nah nah !"
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"BREAKFAST.SYS halted ! Cereal port not responding."
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"Unable to locate coffee. Operator halted...."
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"MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert"
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"The world is coming to an end. Please log off."
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"Beware of geeks bearing GIFs."
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"File not found ! Should I fake it ? (Y/N)"
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"(A)bort, (R)etry, (P)retend this never happened."
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"Outlook not so good." Man! That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
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"This message has been brought to you by the language C and the number F."
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
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"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot, Henrique Holschuh.
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"Brilliance is often born in the crucible of desperation."
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"... this signature is currently out of order."
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"640K ought to be enough for anybody" (Bill Gates, 1981)
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"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons" Popular Mechanics, 1949.
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"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be a serious means of communication." Western Union, 1876.
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"dAMN, SOMEONE HAS STOLEN MY cAPSLOCK KEY"
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"All computers wait at the same speed."
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"User error. Replace user and strike any key."
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"Failure is not an option: it is bundled with the software."
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"Good, fast, & cheap: Which two would you like?" -- RFC 1925.
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"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" -- John Wooden.
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"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos.  Before a brilliant person begins something great, he or she must first look foolish to the crowd....." -- I Ching.
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"Unless we drain the swamp of injustice in which the mosquitos of terrorism breed, we'll never defeat the threat of terrorism." -- Rev. Jim Wallis, Sojourners.
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"Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people." -- Hannah Areddt.
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"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step" -- Denis Diderot.
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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. " - Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943 
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"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. " - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 
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"#3 pencils and quadrille pads." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I 
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"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac. 
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"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth." -- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.
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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." -- John Cage.
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"The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine." -- George Washington, founding father and first President
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"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should `make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State." --President Thomas Jefferson, letter to The Danbury Baptist Association, January 1, 1802.
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"The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of church and state." --James Madison, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, March 2, 1819.
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"We have gone from being lied to about the war to being spied on for protesting the war." -- Rev. Jesse Jackson.
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"News is what somebody somewhere doesn't want you to know.  Everything else is just publicity." -- Lord North.
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"It is up to the individual and not the state to define the essence of the human experience when it comes to love and marriage." -- Robert Scheer.
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"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career." -- Gloria Steinem.
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"If you can cause enough doubt on evolution, liberalism will die." -- Rev.Terry Fox, Southern Baptist.
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"Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise, natural selection alone and unaided could have drawn all the music of the biosphere." --Jacques Monod (from "Chance and Necessity," 1970).
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"Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes." -- George Carlin.
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"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man." -- Alan Stewart Paton.
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"There's a Buddhist metaphor that says all religions, gods, saviors, sages, and teachings are so many fingers pointing to the moon. The object, of course, is to see where they're pointing, not to worship the finger." -- Rev. Davidson Loehr.
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"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth can save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." -- Jesus,  Gospel of Thomas.
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"The more appliances that middle-class existence requires, the more influence their producers have over the texture of our lives." -- Robert D. Kaplan.
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"The seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice." -- Mahatma Gandhi.
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"The most powerful liberal instinct is a grating hunger for more freedom, more justice, more fairness, more inclusion, more fulfillment for more of earth's creatures." -- Jack Mendelsohn.
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"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ... where no minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote, where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference ... where no religious body seeks to impose its will ... upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials." -- President John F Kennedy.
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"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky.
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"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." -- Dante.
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"Marriage is socialism among two people." -- Barbara Ehrenreich.
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"In the new century, I think we will all be insane." -- Tony Kushner, Angels in America I.
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"Fascism: A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." -- American Heritage Dictionary.
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"To expect others to sacrifice everything for you, while advertising by your own behavior that you will sacrifice exactly nothing for them, is the height of political and social immorality. And to do so while claiming your political views are an expression of "moral values" is an obscene joke." -- Paul Campos, to SUV owners with stickers that implore us to "Support Our Troops" .
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"Try something. If it doesn't work, try something else. But for God's sake, try something." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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"American politics are deeply contradictory of course, but anti-intellectualism is the common strain. This includes a deep suspicion of anything that isn't simple, fundamental, traditional, down-to-earth and 'American' in the ideological sense, and can be exploited easily by demagogues and cynical politicians of the right." --Edward Said.
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"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." -- David Freidman.
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"It is both peculiar and chilling to find oneself discussing the problem of American torture. . . Is this American? Is it Christian? What are our moral values?" -- Molly Ivins.
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"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." --  Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935.
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"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), speech in Washington D.C., 1865.
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"Those who will begin with the idea of the domination of nature always, always, end with the practice of dominating humans."  -- Kirkpatrick Sales. [Mendocino Environmental Center].
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"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." -- George Jean Nathan.
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"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom." -- Charles Peguy.
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"Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all . . .  who have the courage to remake the world as it should be."-- Barack Obama.
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"I absolutely believe to my soul that corporate greed and corporate power has an ironclad hold on our democracy." -- John Edwards.
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"No matter where you live and who you are and what you do for a living, it's never too late to let love in." -- Mark Morford.
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"The Bush debt burden will require the government to pay its creditors -- prominent among them, the Japanese and Chinese -- $200 billion a year, forever." -- Robert B. Reich.
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"It is easy to see that the rich have a great distaste for their country's democratic institutions. The people are a power whom they fear and scorn." -- Alexis de Tocqueville.
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"I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't." -- Dee Dee Myers.
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"Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them." -- Barack Obama.
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"People resisted the legalization of interracial marriage with every bit as much fervor as they resist same-sex marriage now." -- Greta Christina.
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -- George W. Bush, August 5 2004.
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"There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead." -- George W. Bush, May 1 2001.
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"See, in my line of work you got to kep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." -- George W. Bush, May 24 2005.
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"I think we agree, the past is over." -- George W. Bush, May 10 2000.
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"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." -- George W. Bush, September 29 2000.
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"I'm the master of low expectations." -- George W. Bush, June 4 2003.
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"This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all." -- George W. Bush, November 30 2006
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"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet." -- George W. Bush, October 24 2000.
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"And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprized, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it." -- George W. Bush, January 29 2007.
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"If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work. "Hello, I can't come to work today, I'm still queer..." -- Robin Tyler.
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"Plastic doesn't biodegrade. That means unless they've been incinerated...every plastic bag you've ever used in your entire life still exists in some form, even fragmented bits, and will exist long after you're dead." -- Katharine Mieszkowski.
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"True peace comes not from the absence of tension, but from the presence of justice." -- Martin Luther King.
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"It is the time for this land to become once again a witness to the world for what is just and noble in human affairs." -- George McGovern.
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"Where do left and right meet? At the truth." -- Bill Maher.
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"Not one of the remaining political candidates -- not Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, much less John McCain -- talks about significantly downsizing the military-industrial complex and decreasing our military footprint around the world." -- Cynthia Tucker.
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"If you were to predict the future on the basis of school achievement alone, the world would be a matriarchy." -- Susan Pinker.
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"You can now live your entire life in America, cradle to grave, watching nothing but conservative Christian TV, reading Christian books, using Christian school curricula, and listening to Christian radio stations. Tens of millions of Americans now live inside this cozy media bubble . . . and nothing ever interferes to disturb it with unsettling questions." -- Sara Robinson.
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"War is unfolding miscalculations." -- Barbara Tuchman.
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"War is a coward's escape from the problems of peace." -- Thomas Mann.
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"It is immoral to invade a comparatively defenseless country and kill its people because they have the misfortune to be ruled by a ruthless dictator who our war strategists speculate might someday be a threat to us." -- George McGovern.
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"When one party is shameless, the other can't afford to be spineless." -- Julian Bond.
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"Political bodies have no business making medical decisions." -- Molly Ivins.
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"Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance." -- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924),
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini.
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"We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them." -- Barbara Ehrenreich.
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"Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance." -- Michael Harrington.
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"Socialism in Central Europe failed because people received more information than was necessary." --Fidel Castro.
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"We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open".  - Emma Goldman, 1902 .
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"These are times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine.
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"Did Christ teach love or is that just a liberal bias?" -- Deepak Chopra.
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"If everyone in the world consumed at the US rate, we would need five planet Earths to sustain us." -- Paul Buchheit.
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"The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give." -- Eleanor Roosevelt.
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"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost." -- A. Whitney Griswold.
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"All through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always." -- Mahatma Gandhi.
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"There are millions of people out there making the world better everyday; my guess is that you are one of them." -- Paige Doughty.
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"Americans too often teach their children to despise those who hold unpopular opinions. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd." -- Mark Twain.
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"The legal status of abortion doesn't predict whether abortions occur. It predicts whether they are safe." -- Gilda Sedgh.
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"We need to be patriotic about things other than war." -- John Edwards.
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."-- Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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"Today, 'liberal' is just another word for 'not nuts'." -- Eric Alterman.
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"You see, [Conservatives] love America the way a four-year-old loves her mommy.  Liberals love America like grown-ups.  To a four-year-old everything mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes mommy is bad.  Grown-up love means understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad, and helping your loved one grow." -- Al Franken.
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"In our age, there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia." -- George Orwell.
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"The cosmos isn't designed with you in mind." -- Christopher Hitchens.
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"Management: The folks who brought you the Labor Movement" -- Bumper sticker.
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"We must crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to bid defiance to the laws of our country." --Thomas Jefferson, 1812.
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"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." -- Sinclair Lewis.
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"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who COUNT the votes decide everything." --  former Diebold Chairman Walden O'Dell? nope, it was Joseph Stalin.
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"The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery."  -- Eugene V. Debs.
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"Everything that's done by the government is done in your name. You are responsible whether you like it or not."  -- Helen Thomas.
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"I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy." -- Coretta Scott King
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"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was  supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man." -- Rachel Carson.
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"This national administration is the worst for conservation in my lifetime, maybe in history." -- Jimmy Carter.
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"It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans." -- Marian Wright Edleman.
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"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself." -- John Ciardi, (1916-1986).
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin.
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"The pharmacists who want "freedom of conscience" to refuse to fill legal prescriptions for women seeking contraceptive devices are no different from the diner owners who wanted "freedom of conscience" not to serve blacks." -- Jon Carrol.
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"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." -- Benjamin Franklin.
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"Surely the right to die in a manner and at a time one's own choosing is the ultimate civil liberty." -- Derek Humphry.
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -- David Hume.
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"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence." -- David Hume.
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt. 
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"We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had -- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he believed them to be in the wrong." -- Mark Twain.
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"We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few, or we can have democracy, but we cannot have both." -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.
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"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." --Paulo Freire, educator (1921-1997).
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"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come." -- Carl Sandburg.
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"Centrism is bogus. The "center" keeps shifting further right because Radcons stay put while Democrats keep meeting them halfway." -- Robert Reich.
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"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity." - Lord Acton
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"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry
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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government." - Jeremy Bentham
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"It amuses me to see the profound change in attitude about access to information which occurs when highly placed insiders suddenly find themselves on the outside. And vice versa!" - John Reid, 1999
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"Fascism -- Once we fought it, now we've bought it."
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"One of the salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit." -- Harry G. Frankfort.
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"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then -- we elected them" --Lily Tomlin
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"George Bush, "a thousand points of light; " George W. Bush, "a thousand pints of Light..." --the Capital Steps.
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"The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret." --Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
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"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?" --Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
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"That in our days such pygmies cast such giant shadows only shows how late in the day it is become" -- Erwin Chargaff.
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"Fear and fear mongering have had a long history in America, stretching back to the witchcraft hysteria in colonial Salem, Massachusetts." -- George McGovern.
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"Force, without wisdom, falls of its own weight." -- Horace.
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire.
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." -- Voltaire.
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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." -- Voltaire.
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." -- Voltaire.
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"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." -- Voltaire.
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"God os a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -- Voltaire.
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"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." -- Voltaire.
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"As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions." -- Voltaire.
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"The aim of the encyclopedia is to...end all kings and all religions." -- Voltaire.
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"The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure it is right." -- Learned Hand.
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"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. "- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
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"I think it would be a good idea. " - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization 
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"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"- Will Rogers (1879-1935) 
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"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious." -- Aristotle.
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"I don't mind if people are Republicans in the privacy of their bedrooms. It's just the ones that flaunt it in public, the raging, flaming ones, that give me the creeps." -- Greg Palast.
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"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation." -- Howard Scott.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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"If the heart of the Democratic Party is not liberal, then what the hell is it?" -- Nicholas von Hoffman.
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"This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. . . The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one and then you turn into a Democrat." -- Garrison Keillor.
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"I had long ago concluded that I had become a liberal largely through religion. Loving your neighbor as yourself, giving your cloak to the man who had none, blessed are the peacemakers: taken together, all of it seemed a clarion call to social justice and the obligation of individuals and institutions to help those who needed help." -- Anna Quindlen.
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"You have to understand the difference between free-market capitalism . . . and the kind of corporate crony capitalism where you have large corporations running our government. There's a name for that, and the name is fascism." -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr..
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"The only time you waste a vote is when you vote for someone you don't believe in." -- Ralph Nader.
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"Please identify one right-wing idea that has moved American society forward." -- Ted Rall.
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"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."-- Hermann Goering, Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945.
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that  matter."  --Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Politics is principally about who decides, who pays and who is held accountable." -- Ralph Nader.
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"There isn't necessarily two sides to a story if only one side has all the verifiable facts..." -- David Sirota.
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"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. Rather, it's the mastery of fear. It's getting to the point where our fears do not stop us from daring to think new thoughts, try new things, take risks, fail, and start again." --Arianna Huffington.
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." -- Lao Tzu.
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"The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain." -- Thomas Jefferson.
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"As business replaces civil society, advertising is taking over the cultural functions that used to be filled by the left. . . . We used to have movements for change; now we have products." -- Thomas Frank.
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"Political change in this country doesn't come from the center." -- Craig Aaron.
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"A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it." -- Holly Sklar and Rev. Paul Sherry.
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"Nukes breed nukes. As long as some nations continue to insist that nuclear weapons are essential to their security, other nations will want them." -- Mohammed ElBaradei, 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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"America is ruled by conservatives, and they have a private obsession: they believe that more privatization, not less, is always the answer. And their faith persists even when the evidence clearly points to a private sector gone bad." -- Paul Krugman.
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"Americans are remarkably ill-informed about the rest of the world . . . We cannot find countries on a map unless we've invaded them, and sometimes not even then." -- Geov Parrish.
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"Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly."  --Senator Robert M. La Follette.
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"After every 'victory' you have more enemies." --Jeanette Winterson.
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"Wars are inevitable...as long as we believe that wars are inevitable. The moment we don't believe it anymore it is not inevitable." --Lydia Sicher.
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"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece." -- Paul Gauguin.
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"If you think you're too small to make a difference, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room" -- African proverb.
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"The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise." --Garet Garrett.
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"I hope....that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats..." --Benjamin Franklin.
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"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war." --Donald Rumsfeld.
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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence." --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same." --Marie Beyle.
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"Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people." --Hannah Areddt.
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"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." --George Washington.
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"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official..." --Theodore Roosevelt.
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"The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all." --Tacitus.
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"War creates peace like hate creates love." --David L. Wilson.
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"War is fear cloaked in courage." --General William Westmoreland.
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"Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor." --A pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of God"
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"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage." --Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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"We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause..." --Scott Ritter.
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"I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit." --Thucydides.
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"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous." --Frederick Douglass.
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"It is far easier to make war than peace." --Georges Clemenceau.
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"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions." --Robert Lynd.
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"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions." --Ulysses S. Grant.
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"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners." --Albert Camus.
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"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it." --Edward R. Murrow.
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"Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies." --W. L. George.
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"The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject." --Marcus Aurelius.
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"The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious." --Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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"The dangerous patriot...drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions." --Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps.
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"It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else." --Theodore Roosevelt.
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"The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." --Sir Winston Churchill.
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"Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people..." --Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice.
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"Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent." --Issac Asimov.
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"Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood." --Mahatma Gandhi.
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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." --Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle." --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." --George Orwell.
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"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood...War is hell." --General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." --Voltaire.
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"The worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being." --Ellen Key.
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"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so..." --Robert A. Heinlein.
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"Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice." --Lord Acton.
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"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." --Groucho Marx.
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"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them." --Thich Nhat Hanh.
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"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." --James Madison.
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"Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war." --Mark Twain.
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"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." --Jimmy Carter.
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"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." --Thomas Jefferson.
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"Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?" --Marquis de Sade.
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"The next war ... may well bury Western civilization forever." --Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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"The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated." --William Ellery Channing.
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"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." --Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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"War is not a word, it's an acronym for 'Wasting Another's Resources.'" --Ramman Kenoun.
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." --Edward Abbey.
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"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive." --Thomas Jefferson.
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"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." --Albert Einstein.
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"If there is no sufficient reason for war, the [war] party will make war on one pretext, then invent another...pretext after war is on." --Sen. Robert M. La Follette.
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"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom." --Stephen Vincent Benet.
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"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure." --Lyndon B. Johnson.
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"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.'" --Ronald Reagan.
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"What is more immoral than war?" --Marquis de Sade.
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"Dulce bellum inexpertis (War is delightful to the inexperienced)." --Erasmus.
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"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." --William Penn.
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"Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat." --General Vo Nguyen Giap (Vietnam).
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"Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing." --Ronald Reagan.
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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." --James Madison.
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"Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." --George Orwell.
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"Conservative governance failed, not because of a run of bad luck or a few bad apples, but because it is deficient at its core." -- Paul Waldman
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"Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world." -- Jane Addams.
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"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." -- Clarence Darrow.
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"A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over...is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen." --G. K. Chesterton.
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"I regard it as horrendous and vulgar, to be frank with you, that there are people in government who want to balance the budget on the weakest and most vulnerable people in this society, and then advocate huge tax breaks for the richest people in this country." -- Bernie Sanders.
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"Why is it so important for some Americans to insist this is a Christian nation? Are they so insecure in their beliefs that they need government sanction for their faith?" -- Alan Colmes.
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"Give the Republicans credit. They know what they stand for. Tax cuts. Guns. Bombs. Oil. Big business. Old-boy networks. Privatization. Plundering the earth. Pilorying and padlocking the poor." -- Derrick Z. Jackson.
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"Not the church, not the state; women must choose their fate." -- National Organization for Women.
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"We are all atheists with respect to Zeus and Thor." -- Sam Harris.
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"Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect -- so what the hell do they do?" -- Jerry Brown.
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"If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names." -- Elaine Gill.
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"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." -- Oscar Wilde.
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"In war, truth is the first casualty." -- Aeschylus.
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"Oppression does not remain static. It carries the seed of its own destruction." -- Ann Sewell.
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"Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy." -- Adlai Stevenson.
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"You can't govern if you don't believe in government." -- Thom Hartman.
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"Liberal: Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. . .  Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded. . .  Tending to give freely; generous." -- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
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"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil they set out to destroy." -- Christopher Dawson.
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"The question for society is not whether the criminal deserves to die, but does government deserve the right to kill?" -- Mary Catherine Cassidy.
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"It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is just and noble in human affairs." -- George McGovern.
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"We have to make a world where there are fewer potential terrorists and more partners. And that responsibility falls primarily upon the wealthy nations to spread the benefits and shrink the burdens." -- Bill Clinton.
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"What, exactly, is patriotism? Is it a yellow car ribbon or is it calling for truth and dignity in the conduct of this nation? " -- Floyd J. McKay.
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"What we have in this country is socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor." -- Gore Vidal.
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"Political will is a renewable resource." -- Al Gore.
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"There is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists... But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. In short, that would not be America." -- Russ Feingold.
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"We liberals need to make a distinction between attacking politicians who see their faith as a necessary part of them and those who want to see that their faith becomes a necessary part of us." -- Andrew Hammond.
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"Don't call everyone you don't like, Hitler. Bush is not Hitler. For one thing, Hitler was a decorated frontline combat veteran. Also, in the election that brought him to power in 1933, Hitler got more votes than the other candidates." -- Bill Maher.
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"The United States will promote moderation, tolerance, and the nonnegotiable demands of human dignity--the rule of law, limits on the power of the state, and respect for women, private property, free speech, and equal justice." -- George W. Bush.
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"I have often been asked to be fair and to view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed all sides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment." -- Karl Kraus.
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"Oderint dum metuan [Let them hate as long as they fear]" -- Caligula.
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"Evan a superpower needs all the friends it can get to fight terrorism. You don't get that kind of help because you demand it or act unilaterally or thumb your nose at people. You get that kind of cooperation because people want to help you." -- Brent Scowcroft.
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"We can never again ask the military to fight a political war." -- George W. Bush.
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"The greatest evils have always found their way into the life of men under the semblance of good." -- Erasmus.
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"There shall be one law for the citizen and for the stranger who dwells among you." -- Exodus 12:49.
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"Do not think only of what you wish to gain but think too of what you will lose to gain it--the sacrifice of so much that is good, the dangers and disasters fo what you will incur." -- Erasmus.
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"Power not grounded in justice and not recognized as just by those subjected to it eventually does not stand. Human rights provide leaven to power." -- William Schultz.
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"...torture stains the torturer almost as much as it wounds his victim. The tragedy is that we are corroding our society even as we try to save it." -- William Schultz.
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"No official of the government..., civilian or military, is authorized to commit or to instruct anyone else to commit torture. Nor may any official condone or tolerate torture in any form. No exceptional circumstances may be invoked as a justification of torture." US Gov't report to the UN Committee Against Torture.
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"Life is a long lesson in humility." -- James M. Barrie.
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"Whatever a movement to abolish torture will achieve for society, it is clear what participating in it means for each of us as individuals. It means above all that our children and grandchildren will not remember us with shame." -- Fred Branfman.
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"Unless we look out for everyone, no one is secure." -- Ronald Aronson.
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"Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country." -- Bumper sticker.
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"Have we become so complacent, so cowardly and intimidated by this government that we have forgotten our own revolutionary birthright of rebellion and dissent?" -- Ron Kovic.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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"There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger." -- Anna Quindlen, on school violence.
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"The war in Iraq has backfired, producing more recruits for terrorism, and deep divisions within our own country. It is a war we should never have begun." -- Robert C. Byrd.
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"Corporations took over America using politicians as sock puppets. It certainly makes a difference who sits in office, but we have not solved our problems if we impeach one of the socks." -- Rev. Jim Rigby.
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"Fairness is a liberal value. Equality is a liberal value. Education is a liberal value. Honesty in government, public service for modest remuneration, safeguarding public resources and the land -- these are all values we share." -- Katha Pollitt.
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"How often we hear the most vigorous argument for war from those who count on others of valor to fight it." -- Bill Moyers.
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"Big brother isn't coming -- he's already here." -- Protest sign.
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"Women audacious enough to seek political office are routinely dogged by double-standard-laced news coverage that focuses on their looks, fashion sense, familial relationships and other feminizing details that have nothing to do with their ability to lead." -- Jennifer L. Pozner.
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"This is the moment freedom begins, the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story, and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself." -- Bill Moyers. 
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"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding." -- Robert Louis Stevenson.
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"Find out what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice which will be imposed upon them." -- Frederick Douglass. 
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"We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice." -- Hildegard of Bingen.
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"We can't escape responsibility, there's no sitting out moral decisions, and whenever we refuse to stand up against wrongdoing we're actually supporting the status quo." -- Rocky Anderson.
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"Progressives say, "We're all in this together" while conservatives say," You're on your own." -- George Lakoff.
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"Conservatives worry that kids today grow up wanting to be porn stars; liberals fear they want to be investment bankers." -- David Callahan.
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"Beginning with President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, conservative governments have focused on reducing the obligations of the wealthy and increasing the burdens on the poor." -- Rev. Jesse Jackson.
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"Ten of the hottest years in recorded history have occurred in the past 12 years." -- Amy Goodman.
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"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform." -- Susan B. Anthony.
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"I'm a Democrat because our party gives voice to people who don't have a voice. It's why I've always been a Democrat, it's why I am one today." -- John Edwards.
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"Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience." -- Vaclav Havel.
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." -- Philo of Alexandria.
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"The fatal difference between corporations and people is that corporations are necessarily irresponsible. It's in the charter. They have to profit . . . Our country is filled with people who do things at work that they would never do at home." -- Jane Smiley.
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"A true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life." -- Tobias Wolff.
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"Should we be giving tax cuts to billionaires and millionaires or should we be giving health care to children?" -- Edward Rendell.
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"Scrotum" -- Susan Patron. Use of this single word in her Newbery Medal-winning book, The Higher Power of Lucky, has led some school libraries to ban the book.
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"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." -- Harriet Tubman.
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"How can we humans imagine that we are the crowning achievement of an Intelligent Designer?" -- Caroline Arnold.
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"We are all much more alike than not, and we are all loved and welcome here, exactly as we are right now, despite all evidence to the contrary." -- Anne Lamott.
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"Can the death penalty ever be justified as public policy when it inherently necessitates the occasional taking of wrongly convicted, innocent life?" -- Martin O'Malley.
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." -- Gloria Steinem.
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"The media's appetite for celebrity-driven drivel can never be satisfied." -- Norman Lear.
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"America is the conflict between those who want the good life only for themselves and their kind, and those who actually want liberty, justice and happiness for all." -- Richard Mathis.
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"Orwell's fascist "1984" is already here and it's called the American workplace." -- Barbara Ehrenreich.
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"Wisdom lies in being tolerant of your own complexity and then extending that tolerance to everyone else." -- Deepak Chopra.
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"It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world." -- Helen Caldicott.
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"Our way of life -- our gas-guzzling, tree-destroying, extinction-producing way of life -- is finished. We have to find a new way of life." -- Barbara Ehrenreich.
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"Support the troops. . . . But don't force them to fight an immoral fight. That's like swearing allegiance to a gun without caring where it's aimed." -- Steven Weber.
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"We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as I know, do not agonize about the canine condition." -- Karen Armstrong.
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -- Leo Tolstoy.
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"But they've summoned up
A thundercloud
And they're going to hear from me.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in." -- Leonard Cohen, 'Anthem.'
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"From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on." -- Leonard Cohen.
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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength." --Francis de Sales.
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"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts." --Nikki Giovanni.
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"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." --Henry David Thoreau.
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"Wars are poor chisels , for carving out peaceful tomorrows." --Martin Luther King, Jr..
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"There is a story of hope, and we are characters in the story." --Robert R. Walsh.
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"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." --Janis Joplin.
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"There is always time for the important things." --Alan Lakein.
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"May your life preach more loudly than your lips." --William Ellery Channing.
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"There are some things that are so serious you have to laugh at them." --Neils Bohr.
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"The master needs the slave far more than the slave needs the master." --Angela Davis.
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"There is something contagious about demanding freedom." --Robin Morgan.
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"All serious daring starts from within." --Eudora Welty.
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"When those who fish can't go to sea, they mend nets." --Book of Runes (Adapted).
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"To try may be to die, but not to care is never to be born." --William Redfield.
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"Little strokes fell great oaks." --Benjamin Franklin.
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"The healthy, strong individual is the one who asks for help when he/she needs it." --Rona Barrett (Adapted).
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"Soft water wears away hard rock, if it persists." --Philip M. Larson, Jr..
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"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." --Thomas Jefferson.
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"My own mind is my own church." --Thomas Paine.
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"Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list." --Letty Cottin Pogrebin.
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"One of the attributes of love is to bring harmony and order out of chaos." --Molly Haskell.
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"There is no reason to repeat bad history." --Eleanor Holmes Norton.
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"Democracy is a government by all the people for all the people." --Theodore Parker, 1854.
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"You need somebody to love you while you're looking for someone to love." --Shelagh Delaney.
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"Shallow brooks murmur most." --Sir Philip Sidney.
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"You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world." --Margaret Mead.
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"Lying is done with words, and also with silence." --Adrienne Rich.
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"Memory is where the proof of life is stored." --Norman Cousins.
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"The world knew you before you knew the world." --Annie Dillard.
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"Sin is the wreckage of the love of which we are capable." --Henry Fairlie.
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"Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion." --Margaret Fuller.
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"Waiting is a window opening on many landscapes." --Howard Thurman.
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"I feel we are all islands -in a common sea." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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"War is fought over land that does not care, and issues that are forgotten." --Robert F. Kaufmann.
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"Loss makes artists of us all as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives." --Greta W. Crosby.
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"Life takes its color and quality not from the days, but the dawns." --Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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"The individual is not made for the state so much as the state for the individual." --William Ellery Channing.
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"Thoughtfulness makes no sound." --John E. Wood.
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"We are each of us responsible for the evil we might have prevented." --James Martineau.
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." --Louisa May Alcott.
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"Being human explains everything, but excuses nothing." --Richard A. Perry.
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"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" --Henry David Thoreau.
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"We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light." --Simone Weil.
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"The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything." --Julian of Norwich.
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"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?" --George Eliot.
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"We are better able to teach others after we have learned the lessons ourselves." --Cyril E. Brubaker.
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"I defy the tyranny of precedent." --Clara Barton.
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"A free race cannot be born of slave mothers." --Margaret Sanger.
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"No lie can live forever." --Martin Luther King, Jr..
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"The best prayers have often more groans than words." --John Bunyan.
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"Justice is love operating at a distance." --Joseph Sittler.
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"Blessed are those who dream, for some of their dreams will come true." --Harry Meserve.
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"Life must be lived undisguised." --Hannah Tillich.
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"The past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes." --Margaret Atwood.
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"They come to church to share God, not find God." --Alice Walker.
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"What we know is less than what we are." --William I. Thompson.
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"Any truth creates a scandal." --Marguerite Yourcenar.
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"As we are, so we associate." --Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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"Love is a form of work or a form of courage." --M. Scott Peck.
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference." --William James.
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"A greater inducement to folly is excess of power." --Barbara Tuchman.
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"Good is not a quality of life. It is life itself." --Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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"Our lives are known by the dilemmas we keep." --Anthony F. Perrino.
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"Most people have to talk so they won't hear." --May Sarton.
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"The key that unlocks the door to the inner world is imagination." --Morton T. Kelsey.
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"Letting pain be pain links us with others." --Matthew Fox.
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"Is silence the answer? It never was." --Elie Wiesel.
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"Be careful how you live your life for it is the only Gospel others will read." --Helder Camara.
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"To choose what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy - that is faith." --W. H. Auden.
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"Take time before time takes you." --Ralph Richmond..
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"When I can no longer bear my loneliness I take it to my friends." --Mechtild of Magdeburg.
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"I must depend on myself as the only constant friend." --Margaret Fuller.
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"Laughter is the beginning of prayer." --Reinhold Niebuhr.
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"Tact is after all a kind of mind reading." --Sarah Orne Jewett.
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"Perhaps we never appreciate the here and now until it is challenged." --Anne Morrow Lindberg.
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"Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery." --Chet Raymo.
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"I have had to live from day to day, striving each day to do my best." --Jane Addams.
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"Every hour I live I become an intenser devotee to common sense!" --Alice James.
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"No act of kindness. No matter how small is ever wasted." --Aesop.
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"The tragedy of life is not death. But what dies inside us while we live." --Norman Cousins.
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"Let us listen to our own prayers. It is we who will make them real." --Deng Ming Dao.
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"Accomplishments have no color." --Leontyne Price.
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." --George Eliot.
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"We did not weave the web of life: We are merely a strand in it." --Chief Seattle (Attrib.).
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"Each night a child is born is a holy night." --Sophia Lyon Fahs.
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." --Marcel Proust.
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"It is in our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read." --Thomas Jefferson.
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"Prayer. doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, it doesn't pollute." --Margaret Mead.
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"What lies behind you and what lies before you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you." --Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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"My country is the world. and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine.
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"Unto us our children are given as an encouragement of hope and strength." --Kenneth L. Patton.
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"If you want peace work for justice." --Pope Paul VI.
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"Where there is no vision, the people perish." --Proverbs 29:18.
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"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." --Helen Keller.
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"No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual." --Margaret Fuller.
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"Let us accept truth. even when it surprises us and alters our views." --George Sand.
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"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice." --Martin Luther King. Jr.
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"No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself." --Rabbi Soter.
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"Truth. like surgery. may hurt. but it cures." --Han Suyin.
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"An achievement is simply a dream upon which we have labored." --John A. Taylor.
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"The race is not always to the swift. but to those who keep running." --Unknown.
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"What the earth is we are." --Walt Whitman.
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"More progress is made by attacking problems than by attacking people." --Harry Scholefield.
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"The worth of an individual is not related to the color of his or her skin." --Whitney Moore Young. Jr..
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"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." ---Anonymous.
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"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." --Anonymous.
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"We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves." --May Lamberton Becker.
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"Give us a child's faith, that we may be cured of our cynicism." --Sara Moores Campbell.
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"Prayer does not change things; prayer changes people. and people change things." --Lon Ray Call.
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"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when you have only one idea." --Emile-Auguste Chartier.
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"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill.
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"Never does hatred cease by hating in return." --Dhammapada.
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"Religion is something you do, not something you wait for." --Charles G. Finney.
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"An eye for an eye only ends by making the whole world blind." --Mohandas K Gandhi.
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"Prejudice is the child of ignorance." --William Hazlitt.
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"If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends." --Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
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"To be blind is bad, but worse to have eyes and not to see." --Helen Keller.
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"We must learn to live together or perish together as fools." --Martin Luther King. Jr. ..
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"If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart." --Lao-Tse.
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"Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?" --Luke 12:25.
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"Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it." --Midrash.
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"True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess." --Louis Nizer.
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"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another ." --Albert Schweitzer.
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"To worship the wise is much easier than to profit by their wisdom." --Clinton Lee Scott.
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"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged." --Rabindranath Tagore.
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"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing." --Mother Teresa.
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"Why should we live in such a hurry and waste of life?" --Henry David Thoreau.
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"If it is language that makes us human, one half of language is to listen." --Jacob Trapp.
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"Everything in nature is resurrection." --Voltaire.
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"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." --William Butler Yeats.
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"The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms." --Clinton Lee Scott.
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"May your life preach more loudly than your lips." --William Ellery Channing.
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"To be religious is not to feel, but to be." --Reinhold Niebuhr.
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"If you cannot find it in yourself, where will you go for it?" --Chinese proverb.
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"Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers." --source unknown.
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"You need not think alike to love alike." --Francis David.
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"An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do." --Jaeger's Facts.
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"There's more to life than increasing its speed." --Mahatma Gandhi.
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"I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes." --Sarah Teasdale.
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"The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice." --Terence.
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"To lead the people, walk behind them." --Lao Tzu.
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"To become a father is not hard. To be a father is." --Wilhelm Busch.
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"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are." --Anon.
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"Your children need your presence more than your presents." --Jesse Jackson.
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"A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood." --Chinese proverb.
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"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness." --Pearl S. Buck.
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"Never lose a holy curiosity." --Albert Einstein.
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"Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human." --James Luther Adams.
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"Universalism struck hell from the theological menu; Unitarianism removed original sin. --Forrest Church.
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"We must learn to live together or perish together as fools. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Is silence the answer? It never was. --Elie Wiesel.
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"Prejudice is the child of ignorance. --William Hazlitt.
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"If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart. --Lao-Tse.
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"We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. --May Lamberton Becker.
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"What we know is less than what we are. --William I. Thompson.
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"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. --Doris Lessing.
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"The tragedy of life is not death. But what dies inside us while we live. --Norman Cousins.
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"Each of us has transforming moments...when we can sometimes receive life once more as a gift, not as a given. --John Buhrens.
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"When those who fish can't go to sea, they mend nets. --Book of Runes (Adapted).
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"More progress is made by attacking problems than by attacking people. --Harry Scholefield.
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"To try may be to die, but not to care is never to be born. --William Redfield.
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"There is a story of hope, and we are characters in the story. --Robert R. Walsh.
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"An eye for an eye only ends by making the whole world blind. --Mohandas K Gandhi.
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"Perhaps we never appreciate the here and now until it is challenged. --Anne Morrow Lindberg.
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"Our lives are known by the dilemmas we keep. --Anthony F. Perrino.
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"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. --Albert Einstein.
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"When I can no longer bear my loneliness I take it to my friends. --Mechtild of Magdeburg.
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"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. --Nikki Giovanni.
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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. --Doris Lessing.
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"No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. --Rabbi Soter.
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"We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. --May Lamberton Becker.
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. --George Eliot.
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"An achievement is simply a dream upon which we have labored. --John A. Taylor.
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"Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. --Margaret Fuller.
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"The world knew you before you knew the world. --Annie Dillard.
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"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. --William Butler Yeats.
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"If you want peace work for justice. --Pope Paul VI.
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"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. --Martha Washington.
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"Accomplishments have no color. --Leontyne Price.
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"Laughter is the beginning of prayer. --Reinhold Niebuhr.
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"Everything in nature is resurrection. --Voltaire.
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"Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it. --Midrash.
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"The man who needs no one's help is a lonely man indeed. --Dagobert D. Runes.
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"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. --Thomas Paine.
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"Light tomorrow with today!" --Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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"Be careful how you live your life for it is the only Gospel others will read. --Helder Camara.
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"Why should we live in such a hurry and waste of life? --Henry David Thoreau.
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"No lie can live forever. --Martin Luther King, Jr..
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"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? --George Eliot.
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"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. --Buddha.
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"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. --Anonymous.
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"Each night a child is born is a holy night. --Sophia Lyon Fahs.
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"There is always time for the important things. --Alan Lakein.
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"And the trouble is , if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. --Erica Jong.
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"You need somebody to love you while you're looking for someone to love. --Shelagh Delaney.
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"Universalism struck hell from the theological menu; Unitarianism removed original sin. --Forrest Church.
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"It is in our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. --Thomas Jefferson.
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"Let us listen to our own prayers. It is we who will make them real. --Deng Ming Dao.
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"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. --Helen Keller.
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"Any truth creates a scandal. --Marguerite Yourcenar.
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"Unto us our children are given as an encouragement of hope and strength. --Kenneth L. Patton.
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"Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. --Han Suyin.
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"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. --Twyla Tharpe.
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"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Blessed are those who dream, for some of their dreams will come true. --Harry Meserve.
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"Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. --Sarah Orne Jewett.
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"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. --Pearl S. Buck.
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"It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. --Sara Bernhardt.
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"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. --Bertrand Russell.
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"The key that unlocks the door to the inner world is imagination. --Morton T. Kelsey.
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"Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show. --Mignon McLaughlin.
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"Reality is something you rise above. --Liza Minnelli.
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"Where there is no vision, the people perish. --Proverbs 29:18.
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"Prayer doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, it doesn't pollute. --Margaret Mead.
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"Justice is love operating at a distance. --Joseph Sittler.
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"Little strokes fell great oaks. --Benjamin Franklin.
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"Religion is something that happens to you when you open your mind to truth, your conscience to justice, and your heart to love. --A. Powell Davies.
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"War does not determine who is right; only who is left. --Anonymous.
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"The master needs the slave far more than the slave needs the master. --Angela Davis.
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"To choose what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy; that is faith. --W. H. Auden.
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"Never does hatred cease by hating in return. --Dhammapada.
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"There is something contagious about demanding freedom. --Robin Morgan.
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"We are not human beings on a religious journey, but rather we are religious beings on a human journey. --Unknown.
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. --Bishop Desmond Tutu.
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"My own mind is my own church. --Thomas Paine.
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"Democracy is a government by all the people for all the people. --Theodore Parker, 1854.
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"Tears may be dried up, but the heart Ð never. --Marguerite de Valois.
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"There are some things that are so serious you have to laugh at them. --Neils Bohr.
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"Lying is done with words, and also with silence. --Adrienne Rich.
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"I feel we are all islands in a common sea. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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"Let us accept truth. Even when it surprises us and alters our views. --George Sand.
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"The best prayers have often more groans than words. --John Bunyan.
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"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. --Sally Kempton.
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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. --Amelia Earhart.
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"Religion is our human response to the dual reality of being alive and having to die. --Forrest Church.
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"What lies behind you and what lies before you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you. --Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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"Some say that walking on water is a miracle. I say that walking on Earth in peace is the miracle. --Thich Nhat Hahn.
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"Letting pain be pain links us with others. --Matthew Fox.
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"Take time before time takes you. --Ralph Richmond..
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. --Marcel Proust.
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"The past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. --Margaret Atwood.
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"You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt.
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"Waiting is a window opening on many landscapes. --Howard Thurman.
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"There's more to life than increasing its speed. --Mahatma Gandhi.
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"We are each of us responsible for the evil we might have prevented. --James Martineau.
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"Most people have to talk so they won't hear. --May Sarton.
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"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. --Bertrand Russell.
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"We are better able to teach others after we have learned the lessons ourselves. --Cyril E. Brubaker.
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"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. --Colette.
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"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when you have only one idea. --Emile-Auguste Chartier.
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"The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. --Julian of Norwich.
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"There is no reason to repeat bad history. --Eleanor Holmes Norton.
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"Being human explains everything, but excuses nothing. --Richard A. Perry.
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"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another. --Albert Schweitzer.
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"The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms. --Clinton Lee Scott.
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"Prayer does not change things; prayer changes people. and people change things. --Lon Ray Call.
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"The tragedy of life is not death. But what dies inside us while we live. --Norman Cousins.
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"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. --Janis Joplin.
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"Every hour I live I become an intenser devotee to common sense! --Alice James.
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"I have had to live from day to day, striving each day to do my best. --Jane Addams.
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"Your children need your presence more than your presents. --Jesse Jackson.
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"We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light. --Simone Weil.
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"Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human. --James Luther Adams.
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"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. --Eric Hoffer.
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"A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. --Margaret Sanger.
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"War is fought over land that does not care, and issues that are forgotten. --Robert F. Kaufmann.
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"The fearful are caught as often as the bold. --Helen Keller.
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"If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends. --Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
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"To worship the wise is much easier than to profit by their wisdom. --Clinton Lee Scott.
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"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. --Mother Teresa.
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"It's not the load which weighs us down; it's the way we carry it. --Anonymous.
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"Each of us has transforming moments...when we can sometimes receive life once more as a gift, not as a given. --John Buhrens.
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"To be blind is bad, but worse to have eyes and not to see. --Helen Keller.
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference. --William James.
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"Soft water wears away hard rock, if it persists. --Philip M. Larson, Jr..
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"To sense our being connected in live ways with all the world and everyone in it, is the heart dimension of religion, whatever its name. --Peter Samson.
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. --Louisa May Alcott.
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"We did not weave the web of life: We are merely a strand in it. --Chief Seattle (attrib.).
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"Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery. --Chet Raymo.
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"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. --Beverly Sills.
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"Goodness is the only investment that never fails. --Henry David Thoreau.
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"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. --Billie Burke.
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"Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers. --source unknown.
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"Give us a child's faith, that we may be cured of our cynicism. --Sara Moores Campbell.
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"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? --Henry David Thoreau.
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"Love is a form of work or a form of courage. --M. Scott Peck.
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"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. --Winston Churchill.
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"What the earth is we are. --Walt Whitman.
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"Religion is something you do, not something you wait for. --Charles G. Finney.
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"A greater inducement to folly is excess of power. --Barbara Tuchman.
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"If it is language that makes us human, one half of language is to listen. --Jacob Trapp.
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"The worth of an individual is not related to the color of his or her skin. --Whitney Moore Young. Jr..
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"All serious daring starts from within. --Eudora Welty.
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"The torrid sun melts the mountain snows. When anger comes, then wisdom goes. --Chinese proverb.
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"To become a father is not hard. To be a father is. --Wilhelm Busch.
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"Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans. --Betty Talmadge.
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"You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world. --Margaret Mead.
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"As we are, so we associate. --Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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"If you cannot find it in yourself, where will you go for it? --Chinese proverb.
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"Loss makes artists of us all as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives. --Greta W. Crosby.
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"To be religious is not to feel, but to be. --Reinhold Niebuhr.
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"We can do no great things Ð only small things with great love. --Sister Theresa.
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"I must depend on myself as the only constant friend. --Margaret Fuller.
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"No act of kindness. No matter how small is ever wasted. --Aesop.
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"Never does hatred cease by hating in return. --Dhammapada.
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"Memory is where the proof of life is stored. --Norman Cousins.
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"An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do. --Jaeger's Facts.
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"What we know is less than what we are. --William I. Thompson.
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"A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood. --Chinese proverb.
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"We are better able to teach others after we have learned the lessons ourselves. --Cyril E. Brubaker.
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"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. --Thomas Jefferson.
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"No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. --Rabbi Soter.
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"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. --Nikki Giovanni.