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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry. — Jimmy Carter
I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people… — Harold S. Kushner
We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who… — Maria Montessori
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational… — Emile M. Cioran
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that… — E. O. Wilson
...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until… — Henri Nouwen
As long as there's hate in your heart, there'll be hate in the world. You can't fight for peace and you cannot capture freedom. — Charles Manson
The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head. — George Bernard Shaw
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy,… — Oscar Wilde
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the… — George Bernard Shaw
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought,… — William Cobbett
True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those… — Menno Simons
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. — Oscar Wilde
My brain cannot conceive how old my body is. — Michael Douglas
It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked… — Eleanor Roosevelt
You cannot judge the value of a life by its length. — Esther Hicks
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or… — Bernard Berenson
The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything… — Eckhart Tolle

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