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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: inequality, kindness, money, poverty, progress, wealth
    631 likes

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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    126 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    378 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, discovery, identity, self-discovery, service
    2935 likes

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    Booker T. Washington
    “Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
    ― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery
    tags: charity, compassion, happiness, helping-others, service
    410 likes

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  • #6
    Mother Teresa
    “At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
    We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: activism, service
    1964 likes

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    William Jennings Bryan
    “Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.”
    ― William Jennings Bryan
    tags: service
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    John Lennon
    “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: god, organized-religion, religion, spirituality
    2754 likes

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    John Lennon
    “War is over ... If you want it.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, fighting, peace, war
    858 likes

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  • #10
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human failure.”
    ― Lyndon B Johnson
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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved -- the Great Society.”
    ― Lyndon B. Johnson
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  • #12
    C.G. Jung
    “You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: action, service
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  • #13
    Mother Teresa
    “I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: jesus, kind, kindness, love, serve, service
    84 likes

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    Jean-Yves Leloup
    “If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157)”
    ― Jean-Yves Leloup, Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    302 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: conservatives
    116 likes

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  • #17
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward
    tags: perseverance, trial-and-error, trying
    138 likes

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: bitterness, citizens, hate, people, politics, presidency, president, united-states-of-america
    26 likes

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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.”
    ― Lyndon B. Johnson
    tags: injustice, lbj, voting, voting-rights-act
    62 likes

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  • #20
    Bill Clinton
    “We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.”
    ― Bill Clinton
    tags: cooperation, difference, humanity, society
    163 likes

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  • #21
    Bill Clinton
    “When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.”
    ― Bill Clinton
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  • #22
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “The noblest search is the search for excellence”
    ― Lyndon B. Johnson
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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.”
    ― Lyndon Baines Johnson
    tags: politics
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    Warren Buffett
    “If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: charity, finance, helping-others, inspiration, noblesse-oblige, success
    310 likes

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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: confidence, timidity
    849 likes

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  • #27
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: contentment, goals, happiness, life, satisfaction
    1164 likes

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  • #28
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Wisdom Of Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: pacifism, war
    532 likes



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