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- Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.
- Millard Fuller, founder and president, Habitat for Humanity International
- Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
- People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), The Affluent Society (1958)
- For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
- James 2:10
- Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
- Barbara Johnson, The Joy Journal
- It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
- Clarence Jordan
- A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
- Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
- Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), Alice in Wonderland
- If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
- Gail Sheehy
- Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
- Thomas Hughes
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