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