"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?" – Chuck Palahniuk

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“The venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.” -John Green

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• "Thomas Edison’s last words were: "It’s very beautiful over there." I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful." — John Green, Looking for Alaska

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• theoatmeal.com’s take on religion
• "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner." -Lao Tzu
• When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~ Chinese Proverb

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – Carl Gustav Jung

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"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." -Buddha

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"Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty." – Samuel Gompers, American labor leader, born 1850

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• The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. —Hermann Göring, Nazi leader
• “If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? … They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that?” — David…
• "The Western media wants heroes it can applaud or villains it can vilify. The real world is different. There is no unity of goodness. A great leader can come with hideous faults." – Robert Kaplan
• We have to choose to be the leader we wish we had.
• "Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course." -John C. Maxwell OC

"Of all the machinery created by the Constitution, the House alone directly reflected and represented the people; and if the people disliked it, they disliked themselves."

History of the United States of America during the Administrations of James Madison by Henry Adams, p.1272

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• "Even if you’re one in a million, on a planet of 6.8 billion that means there are nearly 7,000 people just like you." – David McCullough, Jr
• "When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all." – God from Futurama
• “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” – Malcolm X

"The world is simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." – Henry Miller

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• “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” – Oscar Wilde
• "The world doesn’t care if you’re shy…" -bjos144
• To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.
• We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.”
• My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. – Jim Henson

"Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself." – Sylvia Plath

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“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company” ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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• “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins – Bob…
• "Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music." – philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche