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“I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”
― Nuruddin Farah

“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
― A.A. Milne

“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
― Hafiz

“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
― Victor Hugo, Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
― Richard Lingard, A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World

“All glory comes from daring to begin”
― Eugene F. Ware

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
― John Wayne

“My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.”
― John Wayne

“I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”
― John Wayne "The Shootist"

“Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much.”
― John Wayne

“All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.”
― John Wayne

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
― Albert Einstein

“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”
― Richard M. Nixon

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.”
― Sir Christopher Lee

“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
― Emma Goldman

“Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.”
― Emma Goldman

“The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”
― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“I have a motto that if something isn’t blatantly impossible, then there must be a way of doing it.”
― Sir Nicholas Winton

“Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.”
― Coretta Scott King

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.”
― Marjory Stoneman Douglas

“You have to stand up for some things in this world.”
― Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River

“Don’t think it is enough to attend meetings and sit there like a lump…. It is better to address envelopes than to attend foolish meetings. It is better to study than act too quickly; but it is best to be ready to act intelligently when the appropriate opportunity arises… Speak up. Learn to talk clearly and forcefully in public. Speak simply and not too long at a time, without over-emotion, always from sound preparation and knowledge. Be a nuisance where it counts, but don’t be a bore at any time… Do your part to inform and stimulate the public to join your action…. Be depressed, discouraged and disappointed at failure and the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption and bad politics — but never give up.”
― Marjory Stoneman Douglas

“Once
God wrote a story
that shook the heaven to the very core.
Love was the only language used;
You and I
were the only characters.”
― Subhan Zein