"Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching. and live like it's heaven on earth."

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"“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” "

Mark Twain on religion
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"The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work."

Parks, Rosa on work   

"If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done."

Proverb on age and aging
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"An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching."

Proverb on example
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"The heart that truly loves never forgets."

Proverb on art
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"A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day."

Proverb on hope
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"Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite."

Proverb on hypocrisy
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"The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep."

Proverb on law and lawyers   

"Among the blind the one eyed is king."

Proverb on leadership
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"Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless."

King Jr. Martin Luther on morality
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"Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about that now. I just want to do Gods will. And Hes allowed me to go up to the mountain. And Ive looked over, and Ive seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. "

King Jr. Martin Luther on uncategorised
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

King Jr. Martin Luther on adversity
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"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

King Jr. Martin Luther on freedom
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"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on greatness
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

King Jr. Martin Luther on ignorance
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

King Jr. Martin Luther on justice
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"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

King Jr. Martin Luther on law and lawyers
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"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

King Jr. Martin Luther on excellence
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"The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Adams, John on democracy
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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Adams, John on freedom
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"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."

Adams, John on freedom
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"Genius is sorrow's child."

Adams, John on genius
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"Everybody wants to go heaven, but nobody wants to die."

Louis, Joe on heaven   

"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"

Adams, John on service
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"The happiness of society is the end of government."

Adams, John on society
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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya on defeat
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

Adams, John on evolution
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