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“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

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“Don’t depend on our leaders to do what needs to be done, because whenever the government has done anything to bring about change, it’s done so only because it’s been pushed and prodded by social movements, by ordinary people organizing.” — Howard Zinn

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“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?” — Hillel the Elder “Never been a better time/than right now” — Red Hot Chili Peppers

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“He is invariably in a hurry — being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.” — Elizabeth Bibesco Happy Earth Day, y’all! — ms. nancy

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“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” — Nick Hornby, writer

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“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is easy to miss it.” — Boris Pasternak

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“No one imagines that symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if […]

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“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.” — William Butler Yeats

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“The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.” — Emily Dickinson

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“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

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