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- We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
- Jassamyn West
- What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), in Walden, "Economy"
- Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other.
- Baha'u'llah
- We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
- George F. Will (1941 - )
- Oppression can only survive through silence.
- Carmen de Monteflores
- I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
- Shunryu Suzuki
- Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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