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- I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964
- Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963
- ...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962
- Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961), "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917
- As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961), "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962
- Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
- Henry James (1843 - 1916), "Ambassadors", 1903
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Themes and Variations", 1950
- Either war is obsolete or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
- At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), In a letter to Max Born, 1926
- How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890
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