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“A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.”
A. A. Milne
,
“Winnie-the-Pooh”
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1926
“stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”
Stephen King
,
“11/22/63”
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2011
“The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.”
Blaise Pascal
,
“Pensées”
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1670
“The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it... and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.”
John F. Kennedy
,
“Inaugural Address”
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20 January 1961
“As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.”
Jack London
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“The Star Rover”
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1915
“'patriotism,' i.e., a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
Bertrand Russell
,
“Sceptical Essays”
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1928
“For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last.”
Ray Bradbury
,
“Fahrenheit 451”
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1953
“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.”
Henry Ford
,
“My Life and Work”
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1922
“Life could be wonderful if people'd leave you alone.”
Charlie Chaplin
,
“The Great Dictator”
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1940
“I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also.”
Herman Melville
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“Moby-Dick”
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1851
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
“Self-Reliance”
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1841
“you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.”
L. Frank Baum
,
“The Marvelous Land of Oz”
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1904
“Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
,
“The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”
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1961
“the history of science . . . teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.”
Carl Sagan
,
“The Demon-Haunted World”
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1995
“To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.”
Charlotte Brontë
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“Jane Eyre”
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16 October 1847
“I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further — for time is the longest distance between two places.”
Tennessee Williams
,
“The Glass Menagerie”
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1944
“SELF-EVIDENT, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.”
Ambrose Bierce
,
“The Devil's Dictionary”
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1906
“As soon as something stops being fun, I think it’s time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.”
Richard Branson
,
“Screw It, Let's Do It”
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2006
“We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental.”
Pope Francis
,
“Laudato si'”
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24 May 2015
“the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”
John Steinbeck
,
“East of Eden”
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1952
