Mo Ibrahim
Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.
Billy Idol
I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.
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If your world doesn’t allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion.
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Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
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The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar – his life has been a success.
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Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
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What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Muhammad Iqbal
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Irish saying
An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade jeffof grass to keep from falling off the earth.
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‘Don’t miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow looking for that pot of gold’
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A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.
Steve Irwin
Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.
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‘Crikey means gee whiz, wow!’
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‘The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.’
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‘The only animals I’m not comfortable with are parrots, but I’m learning as I go. I’m getting better and better at ’em. I really am … Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That’s their job. I don’t know why that is. They’ve nearly torn my nose off. I’ve had some really bad parrot bites’
Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)
There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.
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Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
Bianca Jagger
Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
Mick Jagger
I’d rather be dead than singing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m forty-five.
Henry James
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to chose one thought over another.
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
Japanese Proverb
If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.
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Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
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The frog in the well knows not of the great ocean.
Criss Jami
The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
Thomas Jefferson
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Ignorance is preferable to error and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Dr Mae Jemison
Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
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There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
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No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Konstantin Josef Jireček
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Joan of Arc
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Steve Jobs
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
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Older people sit down and ask, ‘What is it?’ but the boy asks, ‘What can I do with it?’.
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists. You have given the gift of laughter to our people. May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.
Angelina Jolie
When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
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I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – That’s when I get in trouble.
Davy Jones, the Monkees
Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!
Howard Mumford Jones
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
Ricki Lee Jones
I spent my childhood in an imaginary world – probably because I needed an escape. I think that’s one of the reasons people have imaginations – because they can’t maintain existence here.
Janis Joplin
You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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‘Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got’.
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‘Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers’.
Joseph Joubert
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Carl Jung
Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Juvenal
Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
Franz Kafka
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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I am a cage in search of a bird.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
– A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
Mikhael Kalashnikov
The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.
Immanuel Kant
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Garry Kasparov
‘I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country’.
Erich Kastner
Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings.
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You can build something beautiful from stones that are put in your way.
Kazakh proverbs
Mountains never meet, but people do.
Mitchell Kapor
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Wendy Karp
When we read, we start at the beginning and continue until the end. When we write, we start in the middle and fight our way out.
Paul Keating
‘He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up’
– in reference to Andrew Peacock.
John Keats
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more – I could be martyred for my religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that.
Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
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Believe when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
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The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
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The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Ned Kelly (Australian bushranger, June 1854 or 1855 to 11 September 1880).
Such is life.
(Supposedly stated by Ned Kelly when informed of the hour of his execution).
Henry Kendall, Australian poet
Since the wrestling and endurance
Give assurance
To the faint at bay with pain,
That no soul to strong endeavour
Yoked for ever,
Works against the tide in vain.
Sarah Kendzior
When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.
Thomas Keneally
I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it’s the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.
John F. Kennedy, U.S. President from 20 January 1961 – 22 November 1963.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
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Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
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When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
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‘Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable’.
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‘If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich’.
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For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal.
Robert F. Kennedy
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.
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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present and invoke the security of a comfortable past, which in fact, never existed.
Jack Kerouac
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
From On the Road
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
The Dharma Bums
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‘A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world’.
On the Road
Genghis Khan
Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.
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An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.
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Find your chill.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Kublai Khan
But which is the stone that supports the bridge?
Omar Khayyam
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet President from 14 September 1953 – 14 October 1964.
‘I once said “we will bury you”, and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you’.
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The press is our chief ideological weapon.
Soren Kierkegaard
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true.
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
Xun Kuang
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Amitava Kumar
Culture survives in smaller spaces – not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation’s grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.
R.D. Laing
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
Evangeline Lilly
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don’t accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
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Your mind and soul are the kings of your physique way more than any exercise you do.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
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I never did intend to adjust to the evils of segregation and discrimination. I never did intend to adjust myself to religious bigotry. I never did intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never did intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, and the self-defeating effects of physical violence.
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A riot is the language of the unheard.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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Cowardice asks the question, ‘is it safe?’
Expediency asks the question, ‘is it politic?’
Vanity asks the question, ‘is it popular?’
But conscience asks the question, ‘is it right?’
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
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Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of the spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
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The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
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The time is always right to do what is right.
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If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do – you have to keep moving forward.
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
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Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.
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When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast with a scientific and technological abundance. We’ve learned to fly the air as birds, we’ve learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we haven’t learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.
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One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
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‘Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.’
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‘We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war’.
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‘History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people’.
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‘Any religion which professes to be concerned about the souls of men and women and is not concerned about the social and economic conditions that can scar the soul, is a spiritually moribund religion only waiting for the day to be buried’
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‘The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy’.
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‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter’.
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or an animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
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‘Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war’.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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The greatest sin is of our time is not the few who have destroyed but the vast majority who sat idly by.
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Stephen King
‘Four in the morning is usually an unhappy time to be awake. It’s when unpleasant thoughts and pessimistic ideas come to the fore.
– from “End of Watch (The Bill Hodges Trilogy Book 3)
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“It’s about how some people carelessly squander what others would sell their souls to have: a healthy, pain-free body. And why? Because they’re too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth’s dark curve to the next sunrise. Which always comes, if one continues to draw breath.”
– (from “End of Watch (The Bill Hodges Trilogy Book 3)”
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Coincidence doesn’t equal conspiracy.
From The End of Watch
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
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Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
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Get busy living, or get busy dying.
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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
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‘Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule’
(What? Not even when researching for Panda’s word of the day?)
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.
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When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘one word at a time.’
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You can, you should and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
King Kong (Movie, 1933)
‘Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast’.
– Carl Denham to the Police Lieutenant
Jarod Kintz
‘It’s not: I jumped in, and it was cold. No. It was cold, and I jumped in. Always arrange a sentence so you appear to be fearless, when in fact you are far less than fearless — you are clueless’.
Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you …
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
L.R. Knost
It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.
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Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.
Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook
A person upon whom the light of faith is revealed in its purity loves all people, with no exceptions whatsoever … Generally speaking, faith is the poem of life.
Korean proverb
‘If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot’.
Brian Krans
Fear is the thief of dreams.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
U.G. Krishnamurti
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
Stanley Kubrick
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Jim Kwik
If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If broken by inside folarce, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
Jacques Lacan
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
Lady Antebellum
Followed your heart over that horizon
Never lookin’ back, just keep on drivin’
But holdin’ you is just like tryin’
To bottle up lightnin’
– from ‘Bottle Up Lightning‘.
Dalai Lama
Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others. It is your own mind.
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Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
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Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.
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The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be.
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When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something knew.
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The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.
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We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.
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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
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Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace.
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‘Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions’.
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‘If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito’. (Dalai Lama XIV)
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The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered ‘Man…. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived’.
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If every eight year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.
Kristin Lamb
The surest path to success is to learn to have a healthy relationship with failure. If we aren’t failing, then we aren’t doing anything interesting.
Anne Lamott
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save. They just stand there shining.
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‘Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere’.
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‘30 years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he’d had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, “Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird’.
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
‘He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than illumination.’
Frans Lanting
Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
Doug Larson
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Latin phrases
‘quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur‘
Latin phrase which translates as, ‘whatever is said in Latin sounds profound‘ … A fairly recent phrase mocking those who use latin phrases so that they sound more intelligent.
D.H. Lawrence
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
Emma Lazarus
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Dennis Leary
Racism isn’t born folks. It’s taught. I have a two year old son. You know what he hates? Naps. End of list.
Timothy Leary
I’ve left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
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There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
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Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.
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My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
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You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
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In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show.
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Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
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You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Stanislaw J. Lec
Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
John le Carré
A desk is a terrible place from which to view the world.
Harper Lee
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Spike Lee
It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
Led Zeppelin
Then as it was, then again it will be
An’ though the course may change sometimes
Rivers always reach the sea
– From Ten Years Gone
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In the kingdom of gold
And the stolen chance
You can join the celebration
See the children dance
– from Yallah
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And the bells will ring
And the crowds will roar
And the sand in the glass
Can pour no more
– from Yallah
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Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace
Like thoughts inside a dream
Heed the path that led me to that place
Yellow desert screen
– from Kashmir
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‘If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.
Kind woman, I give you my all, Kind woman, nothing more’.
– from Thank You
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Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream
I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed
– from Kashmir
Brandon Lee
Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
Bruce Lee
The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.
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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a constant state of learning.
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Mistakes are always forgiveable, if one has the courage to admit them.
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Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
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‘Defeat is a state of mind; no-one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality’.
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If you spend too long thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
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If every man would help his neighbour, no man would be without help.
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Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
Gerald Stanley Lee
‘Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu’.
Vladimir Lenin
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
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Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
John Lennon
You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
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Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
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Everything is clearer when you’re in love.
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And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
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Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.
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We’ve got this gift of love, but love is a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.
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I believe time wounds all heels.
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
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When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.
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Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
– from the song Imagine
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Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
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‘life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans’.
– from the song, ‘Beautiful Boy‘.
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‘Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted’.
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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibilities that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
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Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
and no religion too
Imagine all the people
living life in peace.
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Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
Lawrence Levy
Culture is the invisible force on which innovation depends.
C.S. Lewis
Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal … Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses.
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You can make anything by writing.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less.
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We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words – to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art … It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
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Evil comes from the abuse of free will.
Joe E. Lewis
Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I’m thirsty, not dirty.
Roy Lichtenstein
Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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I don’t think that I’m over his influence but they probably don’t look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
Abraham Lincoln
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
(attributed to Lincoln, although there is evidence to suggest it may have been Denis Diderot or Jacques Abbadie)
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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‘Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world … enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space’.
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‘How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.’
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‘Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal’.
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‘The best way to predict your future is to create it’.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
LL Cool J
‘I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I’m saying? Move past the fear’.
John Locke
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
Vince Lombardi
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Stacy London
Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.
Audre Lorde
The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
Sophie Loren
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
S.C. Lourie
Be confused, it’s where you begin to learn new things. Be broken, it’s where you begin to heal. Be frustrated, it’s where you start to make more authentic decisions. Be sad, because if we are brave enough we can hear our heart’s wisdom through it. Be whatever you are right now. No more hiding. You are worthy, always.
Martin Luther
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
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The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes.
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Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!
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War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
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I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
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‘You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say’.
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For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Rosa Luxemburg
Those who do not move, don’t notice their chains.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
‘Never think you’ve got it figured out
‘Cause when you do you begin to doubt
It’s time for you to open your eyes’
– from ‘Life’s Lesson‘.