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"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp! cries she with silent lips. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

Lazarus, Emma on immigration
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"The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on defeat    Share

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on faith
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"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on freedom
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"We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on humankind
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"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

Kafka, Franz on youth
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