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"This life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those
who feel." |
Horace Walpole |
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"Doing the right thing is easy; knowing what the right thing to do
is, is hard." |
Harry S. Truman |
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"War
may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it
is always evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together
in peace by killing each other's children." |
Jimmy Carter - Upon acceptance of the
Nobel Peace Prize, 2002 |
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"Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the
difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a
dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one
day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its
creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal.'" |
Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August
28, 1963 |
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"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the
expert's mind there are few" |
Shunryu Suzuki, Buddhist scholar |
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Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who
count the votes decide everything |
Josef Stalin |
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"We must learn to live together as
brothers or perish together as fools." |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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"Because they have no high
opinions of themselves, the sage's minds are luminous; Not caring
for status, they become illustrious. Being without pride, they
achieve success; Unassertive, they are supreme. Because they
do not contend, no one contends with them." |
Lao-tzu |
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"In the dark night of the soul, it is always three
O'clock in the morning" |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is
very important that you do it." |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the
attribute of the strong." |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will
be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that
democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that
democracy is the worst form of government except all those other
forms that have been tried from time to time." |
Winston Churchill |
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much
owed by so many to so few." |
Winston Churchill - End of war speeches - Debt to RAF |
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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 D.
Roosevelt |
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"The music of an unhappy people, of the children of
disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced
longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways." |
W.E.B Du Bois
(The Souls of Black Folk - 1903) |
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"As I have said, the
first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an
impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great
peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility." |
Nelson Mandela |
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"After climbing a great
hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb." |
Nelson Mandela |
