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England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

—George Bernard Shaw

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"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

—Ken Hakuta

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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

—G. K. Chesterton

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My life had gone right; it had gone exactly as it needed to in order to bring me here.

—Beth Harbison in Always Something There to Remind Me

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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

—Lawrence Durrell

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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

—Bertrand Russell

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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

—Richard Feynman

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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

—Sydney J. Harris

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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

—Laurens Van der Post

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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

—Robert M. Pirsig

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I suppose that even the most pleasurable of imaginable occupations, that of batting baseballs through the windows of the RCA Building, would pall a little as the days ran on.

—James Thurber

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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

—Alan Paton

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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied, or reoccupied, by our real problems — the problems of life and of human relations.

—John Maynard Keynes

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