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“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”

Carl Jung

“I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.”

Hubert H. Humphrey

“It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.”

Robert Kennedy

“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”

John F. Kennedy

“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”

Rabindranath Tagore

“Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.”

Francis Bacon

“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.”

Richard Dawkins

“They may not remember what you said. They may not remember what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”

Buddha

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

E. B. White

“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.”

Richard Dawkins

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

Dalai Lama

“Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.”

Herman Melville

“In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?”

Dwight D. Eisenhower

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”

Aldous Huxley

“Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.”

Julia Child

“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.”

André Gide

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.”

Tennessee Williams

“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.”

Bertrand Russell

“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”

Oscar Wilde