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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
― Calvin Coolidge : The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge.
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Next time you say, «I have nothing in common with this person,» remember that you have a great deal in common: A few years from now - two years or seventy years, it doesn't make much difference - both of you will have become rotting corpses, then piles of dust, then nothing at all. This is a sobering and humbling realization that leaves little room for pride.... In that sense, there is total equality between you and every other creature.
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.
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“You are night, my darling: night at the peak of its lunar, feminine power. You are midnight: culminating shadow where dreams culminate, where love culminates.”

— Miguel Hernández, from Selected Poems; “Child of Light and Shadow,”
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From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were--I have not seen
As others saw--I could not bring
My passions from a common spring--
This is from Edgar Allan Poe's poem Alone.
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Look, Apistotoki, here is my daughter. See her. See her grace and her beauty. Preserve this child of mine
Patricia Briggs, <i>River Marked</i>
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I will dare to be different. I will prove to everyone that the world won’t turn to ash or spin out of control or be swallowed alive by a black hole.
from More Happy than Not by Adam silvera
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No one can change a person, but a person can be the reason someone changes.
-Spongebob
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"We are responsible for those we tame" Little Prince by Antoine de Saint- Exupery. This comes from a conversation between the Fox and the Little Prince.
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At the end of the world, I fall on my knees. - Abraham Lincoln
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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.... Robert Dahl
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“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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Ojilajohn wrote: 14 Sep 2018, 01:06 Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.... Robert Dahl
We're seeing quite a lot of that recently.
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Augustus Waters wrote: 12 Jan 2016, 14:08
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
In an age where intellectualism, science and fact are all under fire, we can be thankful for these voices of light in this intentionally darkened universe
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tracey clark wrote: 15 Jan 2016, 12:58 To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour

-William blake
I love this quote. It speaks to what we would now call mindfulness. It extols the need for patience, admiration and reflection. So much more powerful than "stop and smell the roses".
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
George Orwell - Animal Farm
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