"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on death
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"Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself."

Howells, William Dean on prejudice   

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on equality
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"Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on equality
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"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects."

Luther, Martin on equality
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"People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community."

Leo XIII on inequality   

"Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality."

Shaw, George Bernard on equality   

"The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless. In such a case, the popular power would be likely to break in upon the rights of property, or else the influence of property to limit and control the exercise of popular power. Universal suffrage, for example, could not long exist in a community where there was great inequality of property. In the nature of things, those who have not property, and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot be favorable to laws made for the protection of property. When this class becomes numerous, it grows clamorous. It looks on property as its prey and plunder, and is naturally ready, at all times, for violence and revolution. "

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"There are only two choices: A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled; or a society where law is responsive to human needs. If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential. Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young peoples unrestin other words there must be created an adult unrest against the inequities and injustices in the present system. If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing. "

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"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on worry
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"What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does."

Unknown, Source on action
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"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Schuller, Robert H. on hope
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Buddha on happiness
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"Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them."

Brown, Les on goals
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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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"To create something you must be something."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on creativity
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"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

Koestler, Arthur on illusion
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"Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing"

Perera, George on patience
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"The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it."

Troward, Thomas on mind   

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"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

Irving, Washington on adversity
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"God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers."

Hemingway, Ernest on criticism   

"Oh, order! Material order, intellectual order, moral order! What a comfort and strength, and what an economy! To know where we are going and what we want; that is order. To keep ones word, to do the right thing, and at the right time: more order. To have everything under ones hand, to put ones whole army through its manoeuvres, to work with all ones resources: still order. To discipline ones habits and efforts and wishes, to organize ones life and distribute ones time, to measure ones duties and assert ones rights, to put ones capital and resources, ones talents and opportunities to profit: again and always order. Order is light, peace, inner freedom, self-determination: it is power. To conceive order, to return to order, to realize order in oneself, around oneself, by means of oneself, this is aesthetic and moral beauty, it is well-being, it is what ought to be. "

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"However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself."

Artaud, Antonin on order   

"Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps."

Bellin, Gita on purpose
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"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going."

Namath, Joe on leadership
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"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things."

Dogen on ideas
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"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity."

Watson, Thomas J. on courage   

"God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body."

Holliwell, Raymond on faith
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"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise."

Seabury, David on advice
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there."

Walton, Bill on possibilities
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

Allen, James on honor
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"We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree."

Casals, Pablo on humankind
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

Lincoln, Abraham on democracy
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

Lincoln, Abraham on democracy
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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