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“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.” — George Eliot

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“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.” — Victor Hugo

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“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.” — Logan P. Smith

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“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.” — Thomas Paine

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“Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.” — Woodrow Wilson

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