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Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more stable… — Christine Lagarde
Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if… — Thor Heyerdahl
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd… — W. E. B. Du Bois
The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for… — William J. Clinton
The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place… — Julie Andrews
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and… — Lucretius
We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old… — Anne Roiphe
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has… — H. L. Mencken
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then… — Henry Ford
It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just.… — Cesar Chavez
We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that… — Cesar Chavez
Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the… — James Weldon Johnson
A man that does not love praise is not a full man. — Henry Ward Beecher
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom… — Jean Giraudoux
Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are… — Henry Ward Beecher
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war. — O. Henry
The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was… — Abraham Lincoln
The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the… — James Madison
Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than… — Thomas Hood

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