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  • #1
    Francine  Rivers
    “Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.”
    Francine Rivers

  • #2
    A.A. Milne
    “To her-
    Hand in hand we come
    Christopher Robin and I
    To lay this book in your lap.
    Say you're surprised?
    Say you like it?
    Say it's just what you wanted?
    Because it's yours-
    because we love you.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #3
    A.A. Milne
    “Later on, when they had all said “Good-bye” and “Thank-you” to Christopher Robin, Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent.
    “When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what's the first thing you say to yourself?”
    “What's for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
    “I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting to-day?” said Piglet.
    Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It's the same thing,” he said.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #4
    A.A. Milne
    “I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #5
    John Milton
    “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
    John Milton , Areopagitica

  • #6
    George Washington
    “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
    George Washington

  • #7
    Harry Truman
    “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

    [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
    Harry S. Truman

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    James Madison
    “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
    James Madison

  • #10
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
    Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings

  • #11
    Abbie Hoffman
    “Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.”
    Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book

  • #12
    Brian Cox
    “The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it.

    The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!”
    Brian Cox

  • #13
    “If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?”
    Michel Templet

  • #14
    John  Adams
    “Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

    {Letter to his son and future president, John Quincy Adams, 16 June 1816}”
    John Adams, The Portable John Adams

  • #15
    Leena Ahmad Almashat
    “A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree,
    Birds without trees can never feel free.”
    Leena Ahmad Almashat, Harmony Letters

  • #16
    Poet Justice Truth
    “When we let go and let God, Freedom and peace are revealed. When Freedom and peace is revealed God's light never goes out.”
    Criss Tareyton

  • #17
    Banani Ray
    “Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.”
    Banani Ray, Awakening Inner Guru

  • #18
    Charles Dickens
    “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
    Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

  • #19
    Charles Dickens
    “My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!”
    Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

  • #20
    Charles Dickens
    “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
    Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
    Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

  • #21
    Charles Dickens
    “There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
    Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

  • #22
    Charles Dickens
    “Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.”
    Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

  • #23
    Charles Dickens
    “We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!”
    Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

  • #24
    Charles Dickens
    “These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.”
    Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

  • #25
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #26
    Rachel Carson
    “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
    Rachel Carson

  • #27
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #28
    Jessamyn West
    “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
    Jessamyn West

  • #29
    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #30
    Karen Marie Moning
    “Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”
    Karen Marie Moning



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