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"And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right."

-Martin Luther King

In desperate times, a reasonable person might despair; but hope is unreasonable, and love is greater even than this. ~ Robert Fripp

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

-Dr. Seuss

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave th world a bit better, whetherby a healthy child, a garden patch… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!”

-Emerson

"I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all"

- Alfred Tennyson -

"It's hard to be afraid of the dark when you shed light on it."
~(li'l ole me... Giselle)

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become reality."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Viva la vida!
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We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.

—The Tao Te Ching

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult task of all.... the work for which all other work is but preparation.
It is a high inducement to the individual to ripen... a great claim upon us, something that chooses us out and calls us to vast things.

—Rilke

Theodore Roosevelt: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials: "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

Joseph Goebbels: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

Here's some of my favourite quotes:

"An Honest Man will change his thoughts to match the truth and a Dishonest Man will change the truth to match his thoughts."
(I'm not sure who said this one. I always heard it in Italian, I hope the translation works)

"Strange is our situation here upon the earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to define a purpose."
- Albert Einstein

"Nothing Can Stop An Idea Whose Time Has Come."
- Voltaire

"A very great vision is needed and the person who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky." - Crazy Horse

The only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for enough good people to do nothing.

Mark Twain: "In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."

"I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it."

- Albert Einstein

"Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."

-Joseph Campbell

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for Humanity."

-Horace Mann

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

-Albert Einstein

Here's a few that I like:

"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.'
- Barbara Jordan

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Muriel Strode

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
- Beverly Sills

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" --Voltaire

"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." --Mahatma Gandhi

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." --Khalil Gibran in "The Prophet"

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." --Rabindranath Tagore

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” --Jalal-Uddin Rumi

"All it takes to fly is to hurl yourself at the ground... and miss." --Douglas Adams in "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich"

J.F.K.

One more from the great architect

"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it"
- Frank Lloyd Wright -

The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright -

"Every day we're stripped of our rights until there's just a bare assed me embarassed by what we see freedom aint free but the price to pay shouldn't be the rights of you and me" babyroo

"You don't love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them." -NDyer

"Society teaches us that, having feelings and crying is bad and wrong. Well, that's baloney, because grief isn't wrong. There's such a thing as good grief. Just ask Charlie Brown. " Michael Scott (Steve Carrell) "The Office"

Life is not about having what you want; it is about wanting what you have.

"the most important thing in a theater play is the actor"
by Maria Clara Machado
quote from master of theater for children in Brazil

"the actor is the image"
by Roman Bruni

They say that God only gives you the weight of problems that you can handle, sometimes i just wish he did not have such a high Opinion of me.

lol thats a good one (I'm sick of following my dreams...)

"Never hold your tongue, for the people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind"

"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later."

-Mitch Hedberg

"Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans."

-John Lennon

There's a lot of great stuff here. I love what everyone has contributed, so far!

"Knowledge is laughable when attributed to a human being."

-Sun Ra

"In the future, everyone will be famous to fifteen people."

-Momus

(An internet-inspired take on Andy Warhol's famous quote that "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes")

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.”
-Michelangelo

"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."
-Steven Wright

“Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.”

-- Daniele Vare

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
--Mark Twain

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

-Nelson Mandela,

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

-Abraham Lincoln

"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility."

-Rachel Carson