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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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You can't just let nature run wild.

—Walt Disney

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Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

—Edward Young

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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

—Blaise Pascal

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If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

—Wilson Mizner

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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

—Laozi

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Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

—Mother Teresa

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I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And, honey, that ain't easy either.

—Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, at 104

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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual — for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

—M. Scott Peck

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We speak for the no longer and the not yet.

—Subcomandante Marcos

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I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it has never seen but is to be — that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. And so, beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth, I catch a dreaming glimpse of peace.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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What's the actual identity, what's the actual inner person, is there even an inner self, is there any identity? Anybody's identity problem is the entire universe; it's as vast as the entire universe.

—Allen Ginsberg

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You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.

—Antonio Porchia

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So much that was beautiful and so much that was hard to bear. Yet whenever I showed myself ready to bear it, the hard was directly transformed into the beautiful.

—Etty Hillesum

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