Ralph Waldo Emerson: There is a blessed necessity by which the...

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Quote: Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Moral authority is never...

Quote: A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote: It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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Mark Twain
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It put our energies...

Quote: I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
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William Shakespeare
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Quote: As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote: I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Quote: Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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Yogi Berra
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Nobody goes there anymore....

Quote: My city and country, so far as I am Antoninus, is Rome; but so far as I am a man, it is the world.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.
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Elon Musk
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Quote: Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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Rumi
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Your heart is the...

Quote: Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is at last...

Quote: It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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Mark Twain
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It usually takes me...

Quote: All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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Walt Disney
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All cartoon characters and...

Quote: There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
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C. S. Lewis
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There was a boy...

Quote: Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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Mark Twain
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Work consists of whatever...

Quote: The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The desire of gold...

Quote: History proves that the white man is a devil.
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Malcolm X
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History proves that the...

Quote: Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
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Billy Graham
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Quote: A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
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Confucius
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Quote: Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.
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Maya Angelou
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Independence is a heady...

Quote: Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Oscar Wilde
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Most people die of...

Quote: I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Malcolm X
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I don't even call...

Quote: I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
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Albert Einstein
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I am not a...

Quote: No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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George Orwell
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No one can look...

Quote: Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.
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Maya Angelou
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Of course, there are...

Quote: A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Aristotle
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Quote: The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The faith that stands...

Quote: If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.
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Rumi
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Quote: We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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Malcolm X
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Quote: If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do... If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed... No task is too menial.
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Elon Musk
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