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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1841-1844
    tags: life, risk-taking, timidity
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    William Shakespeare
    “Strong reasons make strong actions.”
    ― William Shakespeare
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
    tags: animal, animal-rights, enemies, eugenics, logic
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    Harper Lee
    “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: atticus-finch, courage
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    “Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”
    ― James R. Cook
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    “When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.”
    ― Roger Von Oech
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
    ― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
    tags: wisdom
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
    tags: inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: injustice
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: death-life-convictions
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: ignorance
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: challanges
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    John D. Rockefeller
    “I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”
    ― John D. Rockefeller
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Billy Sunday
    “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
    ― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ
    tags: automobile, car, funny, humor, religious
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
    tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: love-loss
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: adventure, inconvenience, perspectives
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: free-speech
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
    tags: catholic, politics, religion, tradition
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  • #28
    “When men chose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They then become capable of believing in anything.”
    ― Emile Cammaerts, The Laughing Prophet: The Seven Virtues and G.K. Chesterton
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