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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
    tags: psychology
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: health, politics, wisdom
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    John F. Kennedy
    “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: human-rights, inspirational, politics
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    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy, politics
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    Mother Teresa
    “Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.”
    ― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
    tags: joy
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    Susan Sontag
    “The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”
    ― Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: dignity, faith, history, man
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: imagination
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    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
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    Robert Frost
    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: education
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  • #12
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    E.M. Forster
    “Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer.”
    ― E. M. Forster, Howards End
    tags: guiding-words
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  • #15
    “Maturing is realizing how many things don't require your comment.”
    ― Rachel Wolchin
    tags: maturing
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