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Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic. – Quote the film “Fight Club”

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it! “—Jonathan Winters (June 1990)

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it! “—Jonathan Winters (June 1990)

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. - Tom Stoppard

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. - Jean Cocteau

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. - Woodrow Wilson

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. - Jean Cocteau

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein

Martin Luther King Jr.: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

I never learned from a man who agreed with me. - Robert A. Heinlein

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches." — Alice Roosevelt-Longworth

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim. - Rumi

“Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett

You must plan to be spontaneous. - David Hockney

“The human body is the best work of art.”
― Jess C. Scott

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill

Only the dead have seen the end of war.--Plato

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
― Roy T. Bennett

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. - Dean Koontz

"Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there." - Virginia Burden

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with. - Steven Pinker

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow. - Marcel Proust

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity - Frank Zappa

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. - Wole Soyinka

“How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?”
― Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Corazon Aquino

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. – Wole Soyinka