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- Where there is no vision, the people perish.
- Proverbs 29:18
- The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
- For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
- James 2:10
- What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
- Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), The Need for Roots (1949)
- No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.
- Robin Renwick, former British ambassador to the United States
- The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
- John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
- Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.
- John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
- We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
- Jean Toomer
- One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- Maya Angelou (1928 - )
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