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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Howard Zinn
    “TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
    What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
    And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: hope, optimism
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

    [Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: american-university, awesome, diversity, future, jfk, mortality, peace, planet, tolerance
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  • #4
    Wendell Berry
    “The Peace of Wild Things

    When despair for the world grows in me
    and I wake in the night at the least sound
    in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
    I go and lie down where the wood drake
    rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
    I come into the peace of wild things
    who do not tax their lives with forethought
    of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
    And I feel above me the day-blind stars
    waiting with their light. For a time
    I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
    ― Wendell Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
    tags: nature, peace, poetry
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  • #5
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: hitler
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: brotherhood, inspirational, wisdom
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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  • #8
    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “Don't ever give up.
    Don't ever give in.
    Don't ever stop trying.
    Don't ever sell out.
    And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment,
    pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.
    But never, ever, ever give up.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Tempter's Snare
    tags: commitment, dedication, drive, eena, inspirational, perserverance, persistence, resolve, richelle, richelle-goodrich
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  • #9
    Curtis Tyrone Jones
    “You can't
    stop dreaming
    just because
    the night never
    seems to
    end.”
    ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
    tags: dreaming, dreaming-big, dreams, giving-up, hafiz, happiness, inspirational, life, life-lessons, motivational, perseverance, persistence, poetry, purpose, rhonda-byrne, rumi, self-love, tony-robbins, vision, wisdom
    50 likes

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  • #10
    Anaïs Nin
    “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: courage, life
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  • #11
    Desmond Tutu
    “God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian!
    All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
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  • #12
    Amit Ray
    “Compassion is contagious. Every moment we choose compassion, we move towards a better world.”
    ― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
    tags: better-world, choose-compassion, compassion, compassion-is-contagious, contagious, kindness, kindness-is-contagious
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  • #13
    David Foster Wallace
    “It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: ads, advertising, anxiety
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  • #14
    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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  • #15
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: acceptance, beginnings, boundaries, break-ups, breaking-up, challenges, change, confidence, dignity, divorce, empowerment, inspiration, letting-go, life, marriage, moving-on, pride, relationships, self-esteem, self-respect, self-worth, trials, women
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  • #16
    Rebecca Traister
    “But I say this to all the women reading this now, and to my future self: What you are angry about now - injustice - will still exist, even if you yourself are not experiencing it, or are tempted to stop thinking about how you are experience it, and how you contribute to it. Others are still experiencing it, still mad; some of them are mad at you. Don’t forget them; don’t write off their anger. Stay mad for them. Stay mad with them. They’re right to be mad, and you’re right to be mad alongside them. Being mad is correct; being mad is American; being mad can be joyful and productive and connective. Don’t ever let them talk you out of being mad again.”
    ― Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
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  • #17
    Carl Sagan
    “How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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  • #18
    Carl Sagan
    “The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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  • #19
    Carl Sagan
    “we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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