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    Oscar Wilde
    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
    tags: family, food, thanksgiving
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    Ogden Nash
    “Tonight’s December thirty-first,
    Something is about to burst.
    The clock is crouching, dark and small,
    Like a time bomb in the hall.
    Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
    Duck! Here comes another year!”
    ― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On
    tags: december-31, new-year-s-eve, new-years, new-years-eve
    2034 likes

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  • #3
    Charles Darwin
    “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
    tags: arts, life, music, poetry
    2956 likes

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  • #4
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
    tags: life, unfairness
    3226 likes

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  • #5
    Jim Butcher
    “Souls," I said. "I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder: Is my existence just this body? Is there really something more? Do I really have a soul?"

    Uriel's smile blossomed again. "You've got it backward, Harry," he said. "You are a soul. You have a body.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Ghost Story
    tags: dresden-files
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  • #6
    Terry Pratchett
    “Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: comedy
    100 likes

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  • #7
    Joyce Meyer
    “Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
    ― Joyce Meyer
    tags: character, conscience, duty
    503 likes

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  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: acquiescence, activism, consent, dissent, duty, protest, remaining-silent
    462 likes

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  • #9
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

    [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: assistance, compassion, development-aid, duty, freedom, liberty, moral-obligation, poor, rich, social-security, society, third-world, wealth
    352 likes

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  • #10
    George Washington
    “Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: duty, happiness, honor
    277 likes

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  • #11
    Stieg Larsson
    “To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.”
    ― Stieg Larsson
    tags: duty, friends, revenge
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  • #12
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: duty, identity, responsibility, uniqueness
    237 likes

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  • #13
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: duty, leadership, loyalty, moral-courage
    233 likes

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  • #14
    George S. Patton Jr.
    “Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.”
    ― George S. Patton Jr.
    tags: duty
    136 likes

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  • #15
    Chester Nimitz
    “God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.”
    ― Chester Nimitz
    tags: christian, courage, duty, hope, moral-courage, war
    101 likes

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  • #16
    Lao Tzu
    “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: courage, death, inspirational, life, moral-courage, real-life
    1871 likes

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  • #17
    Harper Lee
    “Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: character, courage, inspirational, moral-courage, perseverance, tenacity
    1585 likes

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  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bravery, character, courage, moral-courage
    1199 likes

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    Frederick Douglass
    “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: integrity, moral-courage, self-esteem
    1179 likes

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  • #20
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
    succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: honesty, honor, integrity, moral-courage, obligation, truth
    1103 likes

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  • #21
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: ambition, bullying, character, moral-courage
    1037 likes

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  • #22
    Desmond Tutu
    “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
    ― Desmond Tutu (Foreword)
    tags: bullying, dissent, moral-courage, protest
    1209 likes

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  • #23
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: bullying, moral-courage
    906 likes

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  • #24
    Spencer Johnson
    “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
    ― Spencer Johnson
    tags: honesty, integrity, moral-courage, truth-telling
    603 likes

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  • #25
    Edward Abbey
    “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: activism, dissent, moral-courage, patriotism, protest
    554 likes

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  • #26
    André Gide
    “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
    ― Andre Gide
    tags: integrity, moral-courage, self-esteem
    501 likes

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  • #27
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: benevolence, generosity, integrity, moral-courage
    476 likes

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  • #28
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: children, flow, honesty, integrity, moral-courage, river
    517 likes

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  • #29
    Ayn Rand
    “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: ideas, integrity, moral-courage
    383 likes

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  • #30
    “If not us, then who?
    If not now, then when?”
    ― John Lewis
    tags: action, change, civil-rights, integrity, moral-courage, personal-responsibility
    294 likes



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