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#1

“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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#2

“If your leg is in a cast, it's really dumb to sit in front of your computer doing unnecessary stuff with it hanging down. Your leg will swell and heal slower, if at all. When you go to your doctor, he/she will give you one of those "you're really dumb and self destructive" looks. Also, "Why didn't you follow my orders and rest?" Your doctor will be right, and so will mine at my next office visit. Elevate, folk! Elevate your mind, your soul, and your leg, in the order needed!”
― Sandy Nathan, Numenon

tags: health, humor, inspiration, medicine, new-age, philosophy

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#3

“I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

tags: campaigning, rumors, truth

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#4

“Communication

Is a work of art

Some are normally born with it

Some may need a chart
”
― Amal Saleh, Poetry Eyes

tags: communication

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#5

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

tags: awake, awake-my-soul, awakened-mind, awakening, awareness, care, careful-with-words, communication, communication-quotes, consciousness, consciousness-raising, conversation, conversation-quotes, conversations, mind, spiritual-quotes, spiritual-wisdom, spirituality, thought, thoughts, wisdom, wisdom-quotes, words-of-wisdom

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#6

“It is very painful to argue with an incredibly ignorant person. Not because they are stupid, but because the stupid are unbelievably arrogant and insulting. Their constant intention to manipulate a conversation in order to nullify their responsibility transforms any conversation into a game of theirs to bring another person down rather than using logic, and much less allow an agreement.”
― Robin Sacredfire

tags: agreements, communication, conversation, insults

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#7

“People suffering from insecurity and intellectual deficiency thrive on constant vilification; rarely engaging in a communication based on sound reasoning.”
― Amitav Chowdhury

tags: communication, criticism, inefficiency, knowledge, social-media

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#8

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
― W.T. Purkiser

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#9

“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate. ”
― Alan D. Wolfelt

tags: food, grief, love, symbol

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#10

“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.”
― James Beard

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#11

“A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.”
― Charles Percy Snow

tags: bias, knowledge, neutrality, responsibility, science, scientist, search, truth

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#12

“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: aim, biography, discovery, history, literature, literature-of-science, purpose, science, truth

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#13

“What I need is not that which I find, for what I need is far bigger than my ability to find it. What I need is that which finds me. Hence, Christmas.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: bible, christian, christmas, desires, faith, god, holidays, jesus, needs, wants

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#14

“There are always Uncles at Christmas.”
― Dylan Thomas, Παιδικά Χριστούγεννα στην Ουαλία

tags: christmas, uncles

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#15

“To those Romans December twenty-fifth was the birthday of the sun. They wrote that in gold letters in their calendar. Every year about that time, the middle of winter, the sun was born once more and it was going to put an end to the darkness and misery of winter. So they had a great feast, with presents and dolls for everybody, and the best day of all was December twenty-fifth. That feast, they would tell you, was thousands of years old- before Christ was ever heard of.”
― John G. Jackson, Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth

tags: christ, christ-origins, christianity, christmas, myths-of-christ, pagan, paganism, pagans, spirituality-vs-religion

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#16

“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened—by the recurrence of Christmas. There are people who will tell you that Christmas is not to them what it used to be; that each succeeding Christmas has found some cherished hope, or happy prospect, of the year before, dimmed or passed away; that the present only serves to remind them of reduced circumstances and straitened incomes—of the feasts they once bestowed on hollow friends, and of the cold looks that meet them now, in adversity and misfortune. Never heed such dismal reminiscences. There are few men who have lived long enough in the world who cannot call up such thoughts any day of the year. Then do not select the merriest of the three hundred and sixty-five for your doleful recollections, but draw your chair nearer the blazing fire—fill the glass and send round the song—and if your room be smaller than it was a dozen years ago, or if your glass be filled with reeking punch, instead of sparkling wine, put a good face on the matter, and empty it offhand, and fill another, and troll off the old ditty you used to sing, and thank God it’s no worse.”
― Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz Vol. I

tags: christmas, gratitude, happiness, holidays, joy, life, perseverance, perspective, time, tradition

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#17

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: advice, future, life, self-determination

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#18

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

tags: consideration, purpose-of, reading, reflection

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#19

“The worst battle you'll have to fight is between what you know and how you feel.”
― Turcois Ominek

tags: conflict, feelings, love, reflection, self, self-awareness, truth

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#20

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance

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#21

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”
― Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

tags: biology, design, disease, evolution, fear, indifference, natural-selection, purpose, science, starvation, suffering

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#22

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: beauty, hope, inspirational, joy

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#23

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
― Jane Addams

tags: humanity, inequality, rights, security, society

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#24

“A false sense of security is the only kind there is.”
― Michael Meade

tags: security

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#25

“We have become so politically correct in this society it is causing us to become more and more incorrect; this is costing us lives.”
― Bobby F. Kimbrough, Jr.

tags: biases, community, cops, law-enforcement, police-officers, respect, security, society, traffic-stops

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#26

“A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair.”
― Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

tags: apathy, fairness, justice

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#27

“The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied...and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: fairness, progress, taxation

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#28

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

tags: philosophy, society

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#29

“Some say freedom is a gift placed in our hands by our forefathers.
Some say freedom is a human right that none should be denied.
Some say freedom is a privilege that can and will be seized if taken for granted.
Some say freedom is the key that opens doors otherwise meant to imprison.
Some say freedom is power to do, to be, to say, and to accomplish what the oppressed cannot.
Some say freedom is a responsibility—a weight to be carried and shared by those willing to protect it.

Perhaps freedom is all these things.

But in my eyes, I see freedom as a treasure. It is a gem so rare and precious the fiercest battles rage over it. The blood of thousands is spilled for it—past, present, and future. Where true and unblemished freedom exists, it shines with perfect clarity, drawing the greedy masses, both those who desire a portion of the spoils and those who would rob the possessor of the treasure, hoping to bury it away.

Without freedom I am a slave in shackles on a ship lost at sea.

With freedom I am a captain; I am a pirate; I am an admiral; I am a scout; I am the eagle souring overhead; I am the north star guiding a crew; I am the ship itself; I am whatever I choose to be.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

tags: commemorative, freedom, independence, independence-day, memorial-day, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich

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#30

“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: philosophy, wisdom

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