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Dr. Shirin Ebadi
Iranian Judge/Feminist in Exile, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
* "Islam has different interpretations, like any other religion. We must promote an interpretation of Islam that is in harmony with human rights and democracy. The undemocratic regimes take advantage of religion to promote their own undemocratic ideologies."
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Thomas A. Edison
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
"The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
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Jonathan Edwards
"I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause."
"A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hard-hearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian."
"Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love.""
"Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life."
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Albert Einstein
"Condemnation without investigation is what enslaves a mind to ignorance."
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
“Only a life lived for others is worth living.”
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is a though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
"Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."
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Charles Eliot
"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."
* "Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them."
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George Eliot
* "Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"
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Elisabeth Elliot
"Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."
* "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
"The ancestor of every action is a thought."
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it
will be too late."
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Epictetus
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
"The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
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Jonathan Edwards
"I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause."
"A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hard-hearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian."
"Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love.""
"Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life."
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Albert Einstein
"Condemnation without investigation is what enslaves a mind to ignorance."
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
“Only a life lived for others is worth living.”
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is a though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
"Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
* "As we peer into society’s future, we — you and I, and our government — must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow." - Farewell Address
"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
"Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die."
"Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things — call them what you will — I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess. To preserve his freedom of worship, his equality before law, his liberty to speak and act as he sees fit, subject only to provisions that he trespass not upon similar rights of others — a Londoner will fight. So will a citizen of Abilene. When we consider these things, then the valley of the Thames draws closer to the farms of Kansas and the plains of Texas."
"One circumstance that helped our character development: we were needed. I often think today of what an impact could be made if children believed they were contributing to a family's essential survival and happiness. In the transformation from a rural to an urban society, children are — though they might not agree — robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work."
"The final battle against intolerance is to be fought -- not in the chambers of any legislature -- but in the hearts of men."
"The freedom of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the core of America’s strength."
"The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty."
"The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others."
"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
"Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die."
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels—men and women who dared to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power."
"If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law."
"One circumstance that helped our character development: we were needed. I often think today of what an impact could be made if children believed they were contributing to a family's essential survival and happiness. In the transformation from a rural to an urban society, children are — though they might not agree — robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work."
"The final battle against intolerance is to be fought -- not in the chambers of any legislature -- but in the hearts of men."
"The freedom of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the core of America’s strength."
"The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty."
"The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others."
"Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides."
"We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make — we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world."
"We believe in the principle that governments are properly established only when it is with the consent of the governed."
"We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. We must acquire proficiency in defense and display stamina in purpose. We must be willing, individually and as a Nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
_____"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."
* "Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them."
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George Eliot
* "Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"
_____
Elisabeth Elliot
"Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands."
_____
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."
* "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
"The ancestor of every action is a thought."
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it
will be too late."
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Epictetus
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
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Euripides
"There is just one life for each of us -- our own."
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