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- Is life worth living?
Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us - Life is the test of us! - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
- Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
- Edward Sellner
- The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.
- Francine Du Plessix Gray
- When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
- Margaret Wheatley
- Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.
- William Raspberry
- So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
- M. F. K. Fisher
- Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
- Alice Munro
- Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition to patriotism and elevate all of us.... America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave.
- David Mahoney
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