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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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Order is power.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

—Louis XIV

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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

—Rupert Brooke

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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

—Corita Kent

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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

—Rudyard Kipling

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The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking. . . . The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

—Albert Einstein

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As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words "My God, what have we done?

—Captain Robert Lewis

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What terrible discipline it takes to live harmoniously.

—Angela Carter

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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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I will not carry a gun. . . . I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

—Hawkeye, in the TV show M*A*S*H

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Nonviolence doesn't always work — but violence never does.

—Madge Micheels-Cyrus

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