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[Quote No.10627] Need Area: Friends > General "Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. " - Albert Einstein Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10628] Need Area: Friends > General "A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member. " - Johathan Edwards Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10630] Need Area: Friends > General "So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...[W]hat is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword. [therefore the importance of religious freedom and tolerance]" - Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10643] Need Area: Friends > General "There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life. " - Sister Mary Rose McGeady Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10647] Need Area: Friends > General "If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent. " - Henry Commager Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10652] Need Area: Friends > General "We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house. " - Josephine Hart Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10663] Need Area: Friends > General "One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself. [ i.e. when you give happiness you share it too]" - Sigmund Freud Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10671] Need Area: Friends > General "Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. " - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10677] Need Area: Friends > General "Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever. " - Emanuel Swedenborg Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10682] Need Area: Friends > General "Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin Roosevelt Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10683] Need Area: Friends > General "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. " - Voltaire Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10691] Need Area: Friends > General "[A poem:]
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin,
Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
" - Emily Dickinson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10695] Need Area: Friends > General "I have come to believe that the one thing people
cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty,
cold, even hunger, are more bearable than
injustice.
" - Millicent Fenwick US diplomat, congresswoman, (1910-1992)
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[Quote No.10701] Need Area: Friends > General "Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy. " - Saint Francis of Assisi Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10706] Need Area: Friends > General "The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. " - Oscar Arias Sanchez Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10720] Need Area: Friends > General "Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul,
Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness,
That even above the smiles and frowns of fate,
Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth,
That never encumbers, nor can be transferred. " - John Armstrong Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10888] Need Area: Friends > General "The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd " - Albert Einstein Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10912] Need Area: Friends > General "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. " - John Fitzgerald Kennedy Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10923] Need Area: Friends > General "The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. " - John B. Gough Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10929] Need Area: Friends > General "The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. " - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10933] Need Area: Friends > General "There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10950] Need Area: Friends > General "What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations, is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts. [our sense of personal freedom to choose and live our own lives] " - Hannah Arendt Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10953] Need Area: Friends > General "The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. " - Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10964] Need Area: Friends > General "In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, [and] soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments [for you may not receive justice but you will like and respect yourself more, which is something worth the cost, and something that those without virtue and integrity will never understand or enjoy]" - unknown Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10968] Need Area: Friends > General "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. " - Mark Twain Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.10986] Need Area: Friends > General "To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others...[why not choose to become one and set an example others can follow?...don't curse the darkness, light a candle, and show the way.]" - Immanuel Kant Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11002] Need Area: Friends > General "We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
" - Ben Sweetland Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11007] Need Area: Friends > General "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11012] Need Area: Friends > General "Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. [education is therefore a necessary part of a free democratic society]
" - Lord Brougham Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11014] Need Area: Friends > General "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
" - Maria Montessori Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11017] Need Area: Friends > General "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
" - Nelson Mandela Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11022] Need Area: Friends > General "We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
" - Samuel Gompers Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11026] Need Area: Friends > General "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
" - Thomas Jefferson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11029] Need Area: Friends > General "To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves.
" - Virginia Woolf Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11060] Need Area: Friends > General "It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return. " - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11063] Need Area: Friends > General "We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." - Abigail Adams Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11070] Need Area: Friends > General "Tsze-Kung asked, saying, is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? The Master said, Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." - Confucius Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11086] Need Area: Friends > General "A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed." - Henrik Ibsen Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11120] Need Area: Friends > General "When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire. " - Whoopi Goldberg Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11121] Need Area: Friends > General "... you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy. " - J. K. Rowling Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11126] Need Area: Friends > General "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world. " - John Steinbeck Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11128] Need Area: Friends > General "Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain. " - Dwight Eisenhower Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11135] Need Area: Friends > General "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11140] Need Area: Friends > General "Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11141] Need Area: Friends > General "That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong." - William J.H. Boetcker Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11148] Need Area: Friends > General "The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices...We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must." - Jimmy Carter Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11153] Need Area: Friends > General "To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power." - Tryon Edwards Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11161] Need Area: Friends > General "I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty" - John D. Rockefeller Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11164] Need Area: Friends > General "The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers." - Marin Luther King, Jr Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.11172] Need Area: Friends > General "My country is the world and my religion is to do good." - Thomas Paine Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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