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- Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!
- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
- God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
- An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
- Thomas S. Szasz
- You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
- Heraclitus of Ephesus
- People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
- Frederick Douglas
- I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
- Kathe Kollwitz
- Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
- Frank Leahy
- It is the theory that decides what we can observe.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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