Today

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Dr. White's Favorite Quotes
Live it Love it Learn it.
Alphabetized by authors last name.
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Thinking is important, but only if it changes
the way you feel. --Jenny
Adkins
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"Knowledge is power.  Information is liberating. 
Education is the premise of progress, in every
society, in every family."        
--Kofi Annan, former U.N. Secretary-General
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Anyone can become angrythat is easy. But to be
angry at the right person, to the right degree,
at the right time, for the right purpose, and in
the right waythis is not easy.
--Aristotle
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"Nature does nothing uselessly."
--Aristotle
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B
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    Over the course of several hundred years,
new people come along and each lays down a
block on top of the old foundations Then comes
along an historian who asks, Well, who built
the cathedral? Peter added some stones here,
and Paul added a few more. If you are not
careful, you can con yourself into believing
that you did the most important part. But the
reality is that each contribution has to follow
on to previous work. Everything is tied to
everything else.   --Paul Baran, Founding
Father of the Internet
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I would prefer not to.
Bartleby the Scrivener
(Theres much power in those words.)
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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and
classify we give the name of knowledge."
--Ambrose Bierce
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• I was angry with my friendI told my wrath,
  my wrath did end.
• I was angry with my foeI told it not, my
  wrath did grow.
• -William Blake

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"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil
God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is
to speak. Not to act is to act."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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All that we are is the result of what we have
thought. The mind is everything. What we think,
we become.
--Buddha
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Life is trying things out to see if they will
work. --Ray Bradbury
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A conversation should not be a market in which
one sells and another buys. Rather, it should be
a bargaining back and forth, and each person
should be merchant and buyer. My rubber plant
for your victrola, each offering what he has and
seeking his deficiency.
--Charles Brooks
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"Imagine we are all the same.  Imagine we agree
about politics, religion, and morality.  Imagine
we like the same types of music, art, food, and
coffee.  Imagine we all look alike.  Sound
boring?  Differences need not divide us.  Embrace
diversity.  Dignity is everyone's human
right."    --Bill Brummel (documentary
film-maker)
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Go forth, under the open sky and list to
Natures teachings, While from all around,
Earth and her waters, and the depths of
air... Comes a still voice.
--William Cullen Bryant
from Thanatopsis
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"A teacher is one who makes herself progressively
unnecessary." --Thomas
Carruthers
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Let your soul be a shining beacon that guides
others from darkness.

--John Calef
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We think too much, and feel to little.
--Charlie Chaplin
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Only the unloved hate.
--Charlie Chaplin
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"You cannot criticize or blame someone
without revealing something about yourself."
                    --Deepak Chopra
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The whole life of the philosopher is a
preparation for death. --Cicero
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I do not believe that differences need to lead
to conflict. --Jane
Claypool
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I choose to experience joy in the abundance of
life, including the wealth of ways that others
live and express themselves.
--Jane Claypool
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This great nation was founded on principles of
equality and religious freedom. Its strength
comes from diversity. --Jane
Claypool
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True knowledge is knowing the extent of ones
ignorance. --Confucius
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Heaven has no rage like love turned to hatred.
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
--William Congreve
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To hold science up as the One and
Only Truth is a kind of fundamentalism in
itself. --Johannah
Cornblatt
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Emotional maturity is the ability to express
ones own feelings and convictions, balanced
with consideration for the thoughts and feelings
of others.
--Stephen Covey
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One of the most important ways to manifest
integrity is to be loyal to those who are not
present. In doing so, we build the trust of
those who are present. When you defend those who
are absent, you retain the trust of those
present.
--Stephen Covey
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The Abundance Mentality flows out of a deep
inner sense of personal worth and security. It is
the paradigm that there is plenty out there and
enough to spare for everybody. It results in
sharing of prestige, of recognition, of profits,
of decision-making. It opens possibilities,
options, alternatives, and creativity.
--Stephen Covey
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As you live your values, you will find
exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself
from within, rather than by peoples opinions or
by comparisons to others. Ironically, you will
find that as you care less about what others
think of you, you will care more about what
others think of themselves and their worlds,
including their relationship with you. In
addition, you will find it easier and more
desirable to change because there is
somethingsome core deep withinthat is
essentially changeless. --Stephen Covey
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In the last analysis, what we are communicates
far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
--Stephen Covey
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Happiness is a pro-active choice.
--Stephen Covey
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Each of us has many, many maps in our head which
can be divided into two main categories maps of
the way things areor realities, and maps of the
way things should be--or values. We interpret
everything we experience through these mental
maps. --Stephen Covey
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People cant change if theres not a changeless
core inside them. The key to the ability to
change is a changeless sense of who you are, what
you are about, and what you value.
--Stephen Covey
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Seek first to understand involves a very deep
shift in paradigm. We typically seek first to be
understood. Most people do not listen with the
intent to understand they listen with the
intent to reply. They are either speaking or
preparing to speak. They are filtering everything
through their own paradigms, reading their
autobiography into other peoples lives. If they
have a problem with someone, their attitude is
That person just doesnt understand.

--Stephen Covey
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The outer world is but a mirror for our inner
selves. --Ashley Cox
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What we know is in constant conflict with what
we do not know. --Alex
Cunningham
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It is those who know little, and not
those who know much, who so positively assert
that this or that problem will never be solved by
science. --Charles
Darwin
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When the voice and the vision on the inside
become louder and clearer than the opinions on
the outside, youve mastered your life.
--John DeMartini
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Everyone is thoroughly good. The only
difference in men is the choice they make to
exhibit it or not. --Robyn
Ditmore
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the
hazard of incurring the ridicule of others,
rather than to be false, and incur my own
abhorrence. --Frederick
Douglass
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Nothing is more powerful than an
idea whose time has come.
--Wayne Dyer
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I wish to know Gods thoughts. All the rest
are details. --Albert
Einstein
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"I  didn't arrive at my understanding of the
fundamental laws of the universe through my
rational mind."  
--Albert Einstein
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The pursuit of knowledge is more
precious than its possession.
--Albert Einstein
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Nationalism is an infantile
disease, the measles of mankind.
--Albert Einstein
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The most important question a person
can ask isDo I live in a friendly universe, or
do I live in a hostile universe?
--Albert
Einstein
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Religion without science is blind.
Science without religion is lame.
--Albert Einstein
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Learning is experience. Everything else is
just information. --Albert Einstein
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There are only two ways to live
your life One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as thougheverything is a
miracle. --Albert
Einstein
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The significant problems we face
cannot be solved at the same level of thinking
we were at when we created them."
--Albert Einstein
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Preventive war was an invention
of Hitler.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Trust thyself Every heart vibrates to that
iron string. --Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed
of that divine idea which each of us
represents.

--Emerson
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have
done what you could. Some blunders and
absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as
you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin
it serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense.
--Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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Great men are they who see the spiritual is
stronger than any material force that thoughts
rule the world. --Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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Prayer as a means to effect a private
end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism
and not a unity in nature and consciousness. As
soon as the man is at one with God, he will not
beg. He will see prayer in all action.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Speak what you think now in hard words.
--Emerson
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This moment is a good one, if we but know what
to do with it. --Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing can bring you peace but triumph
of principles. --Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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"To laugh often and love much to win the
respect of intelligent persons and the affection
of children to earn the approbation of honest
citizens and endure the betrayal of false
friends to appreciate beauty to find the best
in others to give of one's self to leave the
world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a
garden patch or a redeemed social condition to
have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung
with exultation to know even one life has
breathed easier because you have livedthis is to
have succeeded."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The sum total of things was always such as it is
now, and such it will ever remain.
--Epicurus
(341-270 B.C.)
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"The body is only a combination of simple
elements.  Nothing more.  We're destined to be
decomposed by bacteria, and become nutrients for
plants.  Then those plants nourish herbivores. 
And those herbivores nourish carnivores.  To
recognize that flow, to work in it, to decompose,
and recreate--that is alchemy."            
--from Full
Metal Alchemist
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Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you dont know how great
you can be! How much you can love! What you can
accomplish! And what your potential is!
--Anne Frank
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"Th
e best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or
unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they
can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and
God. Because only then does one feel that all is
as it should be and that God wishes to see people
happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank
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Any society that would give up a little liberty
to gain a little security will deserve neither
and lose both. --Benjamin
Franklin
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"Between stimulus and response, there is a
space.  In that space lies our freedom and power
to choose our response.  In our response lies our
growth and freedom."
--Viktor E. Frankl
(psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor)
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Education is the ability to listen to almost
anything without losing your temper or your
self-confidence.
--Robert Frost
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The strongest and most effective force in
guaranteeing the long term maintenance of power
is not violence in all the forms deployed by the
dominant to control the dominated, but consent in
all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in
their own domination.

--Robert Frost
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Conformity is a conscious effort to change ones
Self in order to assimilate more fluidly into an
environment or society.
--Zach Gannon
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is
to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing
his education. -John W. Gardner
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"Political extremism involves two prime
ingredients an excessively simple diagnosis of
the world's ills, and a conviction that there are
identifiable villains back of it all.
-John W. Gardner
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You must be the change you wish to see in the
world. --Ghandi
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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress
can be judged by the way it's animals are
treated."
--Mahatma Gandhi
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"Our existence as embodied beings is purely
momentary what are a hundred years in eternity? 
But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt
into the ocean of humanity, we share its
dignity.  To feel that we are something is to set
up a barrier between God and ourselves to cease
feeling that we are something is to become one
with God." 

-Ghandi
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I object to violence because when it appears to
do good, the good is only temporary. The evil
it does is permanent.
-Mahatma Ghandi
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There are many causes that I am prepared to die
for, but no cause that I am prepared to kill
for. -Mahatma Ghandi
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
--Indira Gandhi
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Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were
your own enemy for you cannot learn to govern
yourself, unless you first learn to govern your
own passions and obey the dictates of your
conscience. --Kahlil Gibran
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To go forward is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns or the sharp
stones on Lifes path.
--Kahlil Gibran
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that
encloses your understanding."
--Khalil Gibran
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The soul that perpetually overflows with
kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.
--Parke Godwin
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Naturally, the common people dont want war, but
they can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. Tell them they are being attacked and
denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
endangering the country. It works the same in
every country. --Herman
Goering Hitlers
Reichmarschall at the
Nuremberg Trials
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We are raised by society not to
reach our potential, but to join in ranks of our
fellow citizens.
--Matthew Gourneau
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All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts
already thousands of times but to make them
truly ours, we must think them over again
honestly, till they take root in our personal
experience.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"Treat people as they are, and they
will remain that way. Treat them as what they can
be, and you help them achieve their greatness.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I believe that the measure of my soul
is my capacity to love imperfect people. I also
have found that my inability to accept others'
weaknesses is usually caused by my unwillingness
to acknowledge my own.
--Joseph Grenny
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"The ink of a scholar is holier than the blood of
a martyr."                                       
                     --The Hadith
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I live the answer! In my village at home, it is
the exceptional man who can even read a
newspaper. But I will teach and work and things
will happen slowly and swiftly. At times, it will
seem nothing changes at all. But I will look
about my village at the illiteracy and disease
and ignorance and I will not wonder long. I will
hold on to the substance of truth and find my way
always with the right course.

--Lorraine Hansberry
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All good books have one thing in common -
they are truer than if they had really
happened.
--Ernest Hemingway
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All modern American literature comes from
one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry
Finn. --Ernest
Hemingway
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can
be destroyed but not defeated.
--Ernest Hemingway
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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every
ambition is doomed to the frustration at the
hands of a skeleton have never prevented the
majority of human beings from behaving as though
death were no more than an unfounded rumor." 
--Aldous Huxley
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Real love does not expect anything in return.
Yet when it is given, it receives itself and
multiplies. --G.
Jamplowski
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Our state of mind is our
responsibility. --Gerald
Jamplowski
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A nation that expects to be ignorant and free
expects what never was and never shall be.
--Thomas Jefferson
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
--Thomas Jefferson
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Books and ideas are the most effective weapons
against intolerance and ignorance.
--Lyndon Baines Johnson
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• "The true measure of a man is how he treats
  someone who can do him absolutely no good."
• - Samuel Johnson

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As you think, so shall you become.
--Phil Jones
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another
there is no recipe for living that suits all
cases. --Carl Jung
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The healthy man does not torture others
generally it is the tortured who turn into
torturers. --Carl Jung
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of
human existence is to kindle a light in the
darkness of mere being.
--Carl Jung
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Where love rules, there is no will to power,
and where power predominates, love is lacking.
The one is the shadow of the other.
--Carl Jung
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The reason that people react in a
close-minded way to information is the
implications threaten their values.
--Dan Kahon, Yale
University law professor
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"When one door of happiness closes, another
opens but often we look so long at the closed
door that we do not see the one which has been
opened for us.
Helen Keller
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Most people pursue success and happiness with
such breathless haste that they hurry right past
them. --Soren Kierkegaard
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"The tyrant dies, and his rule is over, the
martyr dies and his rule begins."
--Soren Kierkegaard
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• If there were no eternal consciousness in a
  man, if at the bottom of everything there were
  only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in
  dark passions produced everything great or
  inconsequential if an unfathomable, insatiable
  emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would
  life be but despair?
• --Soren
  Kierkegaard

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"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives,
but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not
even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies
hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already
devoid of stars. 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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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Lifes most urgent question is What are you
doing for others?                               
 --Martin Luther King, Jr.
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However difficult the moment,
however frustrating the hourit will not be
longbecause truth crushed to the earth will rise
again. --Martin Luther King,
Jr.
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Sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity are the greatest
dangers in the world.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A blessed thing is for any man or
woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we
can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst
of us, and who loves us in spite of our
faults. --Charles
Kingsley
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Once a person disregards the
limitations set by the world, the boundaries to
creating the definitions of their reality
disappeartherefore setting no standard for the
amount of elation one can experience in their
life. --Kevin Krapf
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People believe they can correct the world all
according to what they think is best. Such is not
the will of God. The Lord allowed life to be
crooked for a reason. Your responsibility is to
appreciate your life, your God-given province,
and cultivate it in order to yield prosperity.
Alongside your joy will come the seeds of joy
itself, and in this way will you serve the
world--as a beacon of hope. --Kevin
Krapf
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The unread story is not a storyit
is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader,
reading it, makes it live a live thing, a
story. --Ursula K. LeGuin
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Wars are the reenactments of the
battles that rage in the minds of humans.
--Pepper Lewis
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It may seem strange that any men
should dare to ask a just Gods assistance in
wringing their bread from the sweat of other
mens faces. --Abraham Lincoln
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You can tell a great deal about a
society by the way they treat their elderly,
their prisoners, and their pets. 
--Abraham Lincoln
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Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is
not its goal. Dust Thou Art, To Dust
Returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
-- Longfellow
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Ignorance leads to fear. Fear leads to
anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to
suffering. Suffering leads to death.
--George Lucas
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The essence of America lies not in
the headlined heroesbut in the everyday folks
who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams
as legacies.
--Alan Lomax, 1940
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If you don't get what you want, you suffer if
you get what you don't want, you suffer even
when you get exactly what you want, you still
suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be
free of change. Free of pain, free of the
obligations of life and death. But change is law
and no amount of pretending will alter that
reality.

--Dan Millman
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Everybody dies, but not everybody lives.
--Nicki Minaj
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Education is the most powerful  weapon which you
can use to change the world."                    
                                        
  --Nelson Mandela
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One morning I shot an elephant in my
pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never
know.  
Groucho Marx
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"Never underestimate the power of a few committed
people to change the world. Indeed, it is the
only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
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We call barbarous anything that is contrary to
our own habits. We have no other criterion of
truth and reason than the opinions and customs
current in the land where we live. There we
always see the perfect religion, the perfect
political system, the perfect and most
accomplished way of doing things.
--Michael Montaigne (1533-1592)
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"We can drop bombs, we can build roads, or we can
put in electricity, but unless girls are
educated, the world won't change."               
                                        
--Greg Mortenson
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Kind words can be short easy to speak, but
their echoes are endless.
--Mother Theresa
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence, nor
imagination, nor both together go to the making
of a genius. Love! Love! Love! That is the soul
of a genius. --Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
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We are drowning in information but starving
for knowledge.
--John Naisbitt
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Life is wonderfully amusing. All you have to do
is just take the time to look around. Forget the
quarrels. Forget the negativity. Hug ALL you
love. Pick little flowers and hand them to your
closest friends. Smile. Laugh. Play. Eat.
Have fun. --Janey
Nachampasak
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Life is like a waffle. Lots of low points, but
it does have lovely toppings and is surrounded by
high points. Then, you attack it to make
yourself jolly and satisfied.
--Janey Nachampasak
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It is only in the equations of love that logic
can be found. --John Nash
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The price of the democratic way of life is a
growing appreciation of people's differences, not
merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich
and rewarding human experience.
-- Jerome Nathanson 
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• Educating a girl beyond the national average
  boosts her earning power between 10 and 20
  percent.
• Countries with higher levels of female
  secondary-school enrollment have lower infant
  mortality rates, lower rates of HIV and AIDS
  infection, and better child nutrition.
• The World Economic Forums 2011 Gender Gap Index
  shows that a nations prosperity correlates with
  the level of parity between women and men (in
  education, health, economic opportunity and
  political empowerment).
• According to the WEF, the U.S. could boost its
  GDP by as much as 9 percent by putting more women
  in leadership positions in business and
  government and working harder to correct pay
  inequities.

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• Women still earn 33 cents less per dollar than
  men.
• In the Asia-Pacific region, countries are losing
  between 42 billion and 46 billion a year,
  according to the WEF, by restricting womens
  access to the workforce.
• When women earn their own money, they spend on
  their families at more than twice the rate of
  men.
• Worldwide, companies perform better and produce
  better ideas when their highest ranks have gender
  diversity.
• 
  --Newsweek, March 14, 2011

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"The most basic of all human needs is the need to
understand and be understood. The best way to
understand people is to listen to them."
- Ralph
Nichols  
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It never ceases to amaze me the things that you
can learn from words, how a writer who lived
hundreds of years ago knew and felt and expressed
the same ideas and emotions that we experience
today, how he or she can aid the lost and
confused so far into the future and answer the
unspoken questions that plague our souls.
--Heather ONeal
 
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The size of your battle is an
indication of the size of your future.
--Joel Osteen
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Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I
believe, could have induced me to support an
offensive war, for I think it murder.
--Thomas Paine
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"The existentialist argues that the scientific
method itself is a human construction inadequate
for understanding the very reason that created
it."  --James
Prochaska
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"A graduation ceremony is an event where the
commencement speaker tells hundreds of students
dressed in identical caps and gowns that
'individuality is the key to success.
- Robert
Purvis  
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First they came for the Jewsand I did
not speak outbecause I was not a Jew.Then they
came for the Communistsand I did not speak
outbecause I was not a Communist.Then they came
for the trade unionistsand I did not speak
outbecause I was not a trade unionist.Then they
came for meand there was no one leftto speak
out for me.
--Pastor Niemoller
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Whatever we vividly imagine, ardently desire,
firmly believe, and enthusiastically act upon can
become a reality in our life.
--Phil Quinn
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The body will follow where the mind leads it.
--Phil Quinn
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People tend to conform their
factual beliefs to those that are consistent with
their cultural outlooktheir world-view.
--Donald Raymond, social scientist
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"I can see a light that is coming for
the heart that holds ona glorious light beyond
all compare."  --Matt Redman

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You wont find your destiny by looking at the
stars. Its a journey youll have to take by
looking inside yourself.
--Christopher Reeve
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin
to die. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
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The welfare of each of us is
dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all
of us.
--Theodore Roosevelt
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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 is morally
treasonable to the American public."
--Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
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It is not the critic who counts not the man who
points out how the strong man stumbles, or where
the doer of deeds could have done better. The
credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and
blood who strives valiently who errs, who comes
short again and againso that his place shall
never be with those cold and timid souls who
neither know victory or defeat.
--Theodore Roosevelt
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Kindness is the only thing that makes
sense. --Geneen Roth
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"God turns you from one feeling to
anotherAnd teaches you by means of oppositesSo
that you will have two wings to fly, Not
one."                       
--Rumi (1207-1273)
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"Love and fear are the only emotions we as
human entities are able to express." 
--Frank Sant' Agata
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"Every truth passes through three stages
before it is recognized.  In the first, it is
ridiculed.  In the second, it is opposed.  In the
third, it is regarded as self-evident."     

--Arthur Schopenhauer
181
Cosmic Calendar Jan. 1st Beginning of
Universe Sept. 9th Solar System begins Sept.
30th Life on Earth Dec. 25th Dinosaurs
appear Dec. 28th Flowers appear Dec. 30th
Primates appear Dec. 31t, 1030 p.m. Humans
appear Dec. 31st, 1155, 50 sec. Human history
first recorded Midnight Right now Middle Ages
1 sec. Average Human Life 0.15 sec.
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You dwell in the field of infinite
possibilities, and nothing can move you from
it. --F. Searcy
183
I can tap into the power that holds the keys to
the universal storehouse of unmanifested
potentialwhich is just waiting for me to mold
and create anything that I can envision.
--F. Searcy
184
Peace is when we see that our well-being is
integrally tied to the well- being of every
person on our planet. --F.
Searcy
185
When we stand in the chaos, we know we are fully
equipped to unleash our potentiality in
orchestration of the universe.
--F. Searcy
186
If your world is falling apartit is that a
better world can be created.
--F. Searcy
187
Nobody has answers for anybody else. Everyone
has their own answers. Everyone is connected to
the field of infinite possibilities. Your inner
wisdom knows.
-- F. Searcy
188
There is no detail that is not part of Gods
great plan. --F.
Searcy
189
The form of my good may change, but the source
of my good is ever-present and infinite in
nature. --F. Searcy
190
The unexamined life is not worth living.
--Socrates
191
True knowledge exists in knowing that you
know nothing. And in knowing that you know
nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
--Socrates
192
Our youth now love luxury. They have bad
manners, contempt for authority they show
disrespect for their elders and love chatter in
place of exercise they no longer rise when
elders enter the room they contradict their
parents, chatter before company gobble up
their food and tyrannize their teachers.
--Socrates
193
To be or not to be that is the questionWhether
'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and
arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms
against a sea of troublesAnd, by opposing, end
them.
194
To die, to sleep No more and by a sleep to say
we endThe heartache and the thousand natural
shocks that flesh is heir to tis a
consummation devoutly to be wished.
195
To die, to sleepTo sleep, perchance to dream.
Ay, there's the rub,For in that sleep of death
what dreams may come
William Shakespeare


Hamlet, Act III, Scene i
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I am cheered by a vital awareness of world
literature, as of a single huge heart, beating
out of the cares and troubles of our world,
albeit presented and perceived differently in
each of its corners. --Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn
197
It is better to conceal ones knowledge than to
reveal ones ignorance.
--Spanish proverb
198
Lets close our eyes and believe.
--Lauren Stevenson
199
Know thyself.
200
Without suffering, there is no compassion.
(N. Sparks)
201
The next one is one of my all-time favorites.
Its from The Grapes of Wrath. Its about hope
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This you may say of Manwhen theories change and
crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow
dark alleys of thoughtnational, religious,
economicgrow and disintegrate, Man reaches,
stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly
sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip
back, but only half a step, never the full step
back. --John
Steinbeck
203
Try to understand men, if you understand each
other, you will be kind to each other. knowing
a man well never leads to hate and nearly always
leads to love.
(John Steinbeck)
204
"This I believe that the free exploring mind of
the individual human mind is the most valuable
thing in the world. And this I would fight for
the freedom of the mind to take any direction it
wishes, undirected. And this I must fight
against any idea, religion, or government which
limits or destroys the individual. This is what
I am and what I am about."
--John Steinbeck
205
For the quality of owning freezes you forever
into I, and cuts you off forever from the
we. --John Steinbeck
206
There aint no sin and there aint no virtue.
Theres just stuff people do. Its all part of
the same thing. And some of the things people do
is nice, and some aint nice, but thats as far
as any man got a right to say.
--John
Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
207
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208
Therefore the Master concerns himselfwith the
depths and not the surface,with the fruit and
not the flower.
--Tao Te Ching
209
"Every human being, of whatever origin, of
whatever station, deserves respect. We must each
respect others, even as we respect ourselves."
--
U. Thant
210
Three Blind Mice Three blind mice, Three blind
mice, See how they run! See how they run! They
all ran after the farmers wife, Who cut off
their tails with a carving knife! Have you ever
seen such a sight in your life? As three blind
mice? Three blind mice!
211
Three Blind Mice (revised) Three rodents with
defective vision, Three rodents with defective
vision! See how they perambulate! See how they
perambulate! See how they perambulate around the
yard of the agricultural specialist! The wife of
the agricultural specialist removed their
posterior extensions with a sharp kitchen
utensil! Have you ever witnessed such a spectacle
in all your existence upon Gods green earth, As
three rodents with defective vision? Three
rodents with defective vision!
212
The mass of men live lives of quiet
desperation. --Henry David
Thoreau
213
Live deep and suck out the marrow of life.
--Henry David Thoreau
214
The morning wind forever blows. The poem of
creation forever flows. But few are the ears that
hear it. --Henry
David Thoreau
215
Anyone in a free society where the laws are
unjust has an obligation to break the law.
(Henry David Thoreau)
216
Men consider not what is truly
respectable, but what is respected.
--Henry David Thoreau
217
The frontiers are not east or west,
north or southbut wherever a man fronts a
fact. --Henry David Thoreau
218
There are nowadays professors of
philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is
admirable to profess because it was once
admirable to live. --Henry
David Thoreau
219
If one advances confidently in the direction of
his dreams and endeavors to live the life which
he has imagined, he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours. (Thoreau)
220
The world is but canvas for the imagination.
--Henry David Thoreau
221
"The illiterate of the twenty-first century will
not be those who cannot read and write, but those
who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
Alvin Toffler
222
I know that my unity with all people cannot be
destroyed by national boundaries and government
orders.
-Leo Tolstoy
223
I believe I have no prejudice whatsoever. All I
need to know isman is a member of the human
race. That is enough for me.
--Mark Twain
224
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
225
The difference between the right word and the
almost right word is the difference between
lightning and the lightning bug.
--Mark
Twain
226
"For your race, in its poverty, has
unquestionably one really effective
weapon--laughter.  Power, Money, Persuasion,
Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a
colossal humbug,--push it a little--crowd it a
little--weaken it a little, century by century
but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms
at a blast."
--Mark Twain
227
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so
ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man
around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven
years.
--Mark Twain
228
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into
trouble. It's what you know for sure that just
ain't so."
--Mark Twain
229
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my
education."
--Mark Twain
230
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231
"It is not more surprising to be born twice than
once everything in nature is resurrection.
--Voltaire
232
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233
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy
in whatever situation I may be, for I have also
learned from experience that the greater part of
our happiness or misery depends upon our
dispositions and not upon our circumstances.
--Martha Washington
234
It is easy to be brief and sharply outlined,
but the real achievement is to suggest
illimitable air within a narrow space.
--Edith Wharton 
235
It is not unreasonable to expect that a few
seeds of improvement planted by my hand may
germinate and grow, and ripen into valuable fruit
when my remains shall be mingled with the dust.
(Noah Webster)
236
"You may not understand the hands of God, but
you can understand the heart of God."  
--James
Williams
237
I permit to speak at every hazard.
--Walt Whitman
238
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of
the world. --Walt
Whitman
239
What good amidst these, O Me? O Life? The
answer That life exists. And identity. That
the powerful play goes on and you may contribute
a verse. --Walt
Whitman
240
"Most people are other people.  Their thoughts
are someone else's opinions, their lives a
mimicry, their passions a quotation."   
--Oscar Wilde
241
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well
to remember from time to time that nothing that
is worth knowing can be taught."

--Oscar Wilde
242
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately
fleeting is the great magic trick of human
existence. --Tennessee Williams
243
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately
fleeting is the great magic trick of human
existence. --Tennessee Williams
244
"A philosopher who is not taking part in
discussions is like a boxer who never goes into
the ring."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
245
Anonymous
Actually, I made up some of these myself, but
Im not going tell you which ones. The author
doesnt matter. Truth is truth.
246
The mind of a creative artist is a mirror, and
the work of art is the reflection of life in
it.
--Anonymous
247
Trust the quiet voice within. Let it
guide you.
248
Envision it. And it shall be yours. It shall
be real. This is the power God has given to his
sons that they shall create with him.
249
Every life we touch is a field everything we do
and all the words we speak are seeds. What will
become of the harvest? --Anonymous
250
Your body is a temple and your mind is the
sanctuary. Allow only good things inside.
251
Only minds and the objects of mind exist.
Everything is composed of mental realities.
--Anonymous
252
Most of humanity is like a
beautiful songbird flying in a cage with the door
open. Few are willing to fly through the door
because of the comfort of the cage. But those who
go through the door find a new universe to
explore.
253
People have within themselves the key to
the prisons in which they are locked.
254
Many conflicts in life are the result of trying
to manipulate external forces.
255
Creation is not a single event
that happened billions of years ago. It is
happening right now. Right now, the world is
breaking itself down and re-creating. We are a
part of this and have been given the unique gift
of the human mind to make choices and co-create
with God.
256
Man is distinct in being the
created and working alongside the Creator. This
is our gift. The world as we know it is the
result of this process.
257
The treasure lies not at the end of the
rainbow, but along the journey.
258
If there is no God, nothing matters. If there
is a God, nothing else matters.
--Anonymous
259
I believe in the sun, even when I dont see it
shining.
260
What you think becomes your vision. What
you envision becomes your reality. Choose your
thoughts carefully. Imagine Good.
261
The physical world is but a temporal vision.
--Anonymous
262
The mind of a creative creative artist is a
mirror, and the work of art is the reflection of
life in it.
--Anonymous
263
People make choices. And choices make people.
--Anonymous
264
Each moment is an opportunity for a new
thought.
265
To embrace faith is to embrace the potential of
the human spirit.
266
Every action has an equal and opposite
reaction. Therefore, our every action has a
specific consequence.
267
When a nation is threatened, conformity abounds.
Fear breeds conservatism.
268
If you do not form your identity, someone
else will form it for you.
269
Right where you are is a sacred place.

--Anonymous
270
Salvation consists in passing from this dark,
restless, and tormented existence in which the
worldly man lives to live in Truth to that
which is really worth living.
271
Positive things, Life sustains. Negative
words. Food for worms.
272
If we could shrink the Earths
population to a village of 100 people, with all
ratios remaining the same- There would be 57
Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western
Hemisphere, 8 Africans- 51 Females, 49 Males-
70 non-white, 30 white- 70 non-Christians, 30
Christians- 50 of the worlds wealth would be
owned by 6 peopleall from the U.S.- 80 in
sub-standard housing- 70 illiterate- 50
malnourished- 1 near death- 1 near birth- 1
college graduate- 1 with a computer
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Ellie

Okay, so this isnt a quote, but isnt Ellie cute?