"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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"Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?"

Whitman, Walt on Youth
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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."

Whitman, Walt on Sympathy
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"The beautiful uncut hair of graves."

Whitman, Walt on Burial
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Humor
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"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Poverty and The Poor
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"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Power
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"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Prayer
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Revenge
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"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Conflict
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"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Country
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"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Coward and Cowardice
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"God comes to the hungry in the form of food."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Food and Eating
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Forgiveness
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

Hughes, Langston on Dreams
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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Adams, Douglas on Airplane and Aviation
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"The back of one door is the face of another."

Proverb on Opportunity
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"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."

Seymore, Cray on Memory
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"Don't trust the person who has broken faith once."

Shakespeare, William on Trust
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"The aims of life are the best defense against death."

Levi, Primo on Purpose
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"The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old."

James, William on Growth
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"If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

James, William on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia."

James, William on Friends and Friendship
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."

James, William on Fatigue
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"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."

James, William on Failure
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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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