“There is a well-worn adage that those who set out upon a great enterprise would do well to count the cost. I am not sure that this is always true. I think that some of the very greatest enterprises in this world have been carried out successfully simply because the people who undertook them did not count the cost; and […]
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“The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal […]
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“Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest” – Maya Angelou
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“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
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“Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn’t want your mother to hear at your trial.” – Sydney Biddle Barrows
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“Pessimists live in fear of their hope, optimists in fear of their fear.” – James Richardson
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“The human person, created in the image and likeness of God, cannot become a slave to things, to economic systems, to technological civilization, to consumerism, to easy success.” – Pope Francis
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“If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.” – Bette Davis
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“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.” – Ingrid Bergman
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