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Basil S. Walsh
If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there
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Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.
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Diane Frolov
What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 322. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree.
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William Shakespeare
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
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James A. Froude
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent
No other road, no other way, no day but today.
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Dame Rose Macaulay
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
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Charles De Gaulle
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Edward Abbey
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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Billie Burke
Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
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