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As you press on with justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapons of love.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired; you quit when the gorilla is tired.

—Robert Strauss

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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with my problems longer.

—Albert Einstein

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, then you must make it.

—Charles Buxton

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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

—Will Rogers

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We must do what we conceive to be right and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we'll be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll do the wrong thing, and we'll be part of the disease and not part of the cure.

—E. F. Schumacher

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Faith is not making religious-sounding noises in the daytime. It is asking your innermost self questions at night — and then getting up and going to work.

—Mary Jean Irion

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

—Leo Tolstoy

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The grandeur of nature is only the beginning. Beyond the grandeur is God.

—Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine — which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.

—Wendell Berry

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Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.

—Garrison Keillor

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Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener. . . . She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.

—Renata Adler

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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

—John Muir

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Have you become a farmer? Is it not pleasanter than to be shut up within four walls and delving eternally with the pen?

—Thomas Jefferson

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Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

—Jonathan Swift

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