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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

—Walter Scott

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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

—Martin Luther

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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

—Orson Welles

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Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

—Francis Beaumont

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

—Andy Warhol

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Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

—Hesiod

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The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

—Sarah Fielding

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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding; I want
the understanding which bringeth peace.

—Helen Keller

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We need to take a leap of the imagination and envision nations as the best kinds of families: the democratic ones we are
trying to create in our own lives. A hierarchical family must
be changed anyway if we are to stop producing leaders whose
unexamined early lives are then played out on a national and
international stage. . . . Changing the way we raise children is the only long-term path to peace or arms control, and neither
has ever been more crucial. As the feminist adage says, "The
personal is political.

—Gloria Steinem

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It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country,
but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but
one country and mankind its citizens.

—Bahá'u'lláh

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and
the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under
the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and
democracy?

—Mahatma Gandhi

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Whether the mask is labeled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus — the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battle lines, . . . but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this Apparatus, and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

—Simone Weil

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I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter
how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore.

—George Carlin

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I find patriotism not only a refuge of scoundrels but of idiots and those who like to buy their thinking ready-made each morning in the vacuous newspapers. Every decade or so governments create wars and whip up a frenzy, so that we will not notice the shortcomings of our own side and will not question the assumptions of our society and demand more rational institutions and laws.

—Marge Piercy

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