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[Quote No.58109] Need Area: Friends > General
"We are socialists [paternalistic statists - where the government has all the importance, power and freedom while the individual has very little], we are enemies of today's [free market] capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions." - Adolf Hitler
(1889-1945) German Nazi [Nationalist Socialist Workers' Party] Dictator. Source: Hitler’s speech on May 1, 1927. Cited in: Toland, John (1992). 'Adolf Hitler', Anchor Books, pp. 224–225, ISBN 0385037244.
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[Quote No.58115] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Anonymity versus fame:] To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world." - Anthony Burgess
(1917 - 1993), author
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[Quote No.58119] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Democratic political] Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it [and promising that if they vote for you and you win office, you will use that power to help them]." - John Naisbitt
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[Quote No.58125] Need Area: Friends > General
"The ideal of freedom is to let anyone do anything he pleases, as long as his behavior is peaceful [freedom from force and fraud so each individual has informed consent], with government empowered to keep the peace [and enforce contracts] - and nothing more." - Leonard Read
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[Quote No.58143] Need Area: Friends > General
"...politics... Always inform yourself ...always vote." - Walt Whitman
(1819 - 1892), American poet.
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[Quote No.58155] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Socialists, overly interventionist politicians and other paternal statists who, out of a misguided sense of compassion, wish to remove the struggle from life should note the following...] Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself." - C.S. Lewis
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[Quote No.58160] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Empathy and kindness:] To ease another's heartache is to [distract from and hopefully for at least a time] forget one's own." - Abraham Lincoln
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[Quote No.58167] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small government and free market capitalism rather than big, interventionist, paternal, statist government and a planned economy:] The impossibility of any individual or small group conceiving of all the possibilities, let alone evaluating their merits, is the great argument against central governmental planning and against arrangements such as professional monopolies that limit the possibilities of experimentation." - Milton Friedman
'Capitalism and Freedom', 1962.
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[Quote No.58172] Need Area: Friends > General
"Perhaps I can summarise it best by saying this -- Nations that have pursued equality, like the Iron Curtain countries, I think have finished up with neither equality, nor liberty. Nations, which like us, in the past have pursued liberty, as a fundamental objective, extending it to all, have finished up with liberty, human dignity, and far fewer inequalities than other people." - Margaret Thatcher
(1925-2013) British Prime Minister (1979–1990). Source: 1976 Feb 5, TV Interview for Thames TV 'This Week'.
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[Quote No.58176] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual freedom of informed choice and personal responsibility rather than statist, interventionist, paternal, big government:] Happiness in life is like a smorgasbord. If 100 people went to a smorgasbord and each put food on their plate in the quantity and mix that each felt would be most pleasing to him, every plate would be different. Even a husband and wife would go up to the smorgasbord and come back with plates that looked completely different.
Happiness is the same way. Each person requires a particular combination of those ingredients to feel the very best about himself or herself.
And your mix is changing continually. If you went to the same smorgasbord every day for a year, you probably would come back with a different plateful of food each time. Each day - sometimes each hour - only you can tell what it takes to make you happy.
Therefore, the only way to judge whether a job, a relationship, an investment, or any decision, is right for you is to get in touch with your feelings and listen to your heart. [No-one else can do this for you as well as you can do it for yourself!]" - Brian Tracy
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[Quote No.58177] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Equal freedom from force and fraud:] Force and reason -- which last is the essence of the moral act -- are at the two opposite poles. The one who compels his neighbor... treats him, not as a being with reason, but as an animal in whom reason is not." - Auberon Herbert
(1838-1906) English author
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[Quote No.58181] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Reframing what you compare your experiences with is...] The Simple Secret to Good Moods [Eternal Gratitude and overcoming the 'Politics of Envy' - so you never again feel so jealous and envious of others that you demand the political forces of government, etc., redistribute others' property and power unequally in the name of your 'equality'. Hopefully this understanding of how our brain works to be happy will allow you to be happy without demanding 'unfair equality' because the only real equality should be each person's equal, inalienable human right to freedom from force and fraud, by anyone else including the government.]
In an experiment, people were asked to do a simple task: Complete the sentence, 'I'm glad I'm not a...' They completed the sentence five times.
After doing this simple exercise, they were happier with their lives. Their 'life satisfaction' was improved after the exercise.
Another group of volunteers were asked to complete a different sentence: 'I wish I were a...' After this exercise, they were less satisfied with their lives.
You have a lot of control over what you compare your life to, and if you would like to feel contentment, it behooves you to consciously exercise your control. Use the power you have and enjoy more of your life.
Another study, this time at the University of Milwaukee, looked at comparisons in a different way. A group of women were shown pictures of difficult living conditions from a hundred years ago. Another group were told to imagine and then write about what it would be like to experience a horrible tragedy like getting disfigured or terribly burned.
Doesn't this sound like a fun exercise? Afterwards the women filled out a rating scale to measure their satisfaction with the quality of their own lives.
They were more satisfied with their lives after the exercise. Why? Because it gave them something worse to compare their own lives to.
You can do a comparison experiment at home. Fill one bucket with ice cold water and another bucket with pretty hot water. Fill a third bucket with room-temperature water. Now soak one hand in the hot water and one in the cold water for a couple minutes. Then pull them both out and plunge them into the room temperature water. You'll get the strange sensation of a single bucket of water feeling both hot and cold at the same time.
Compared to the hot water, the room temperature water feels cold. Compared to the ice cold water, it feels hot. Comparison makes the difference. It effects your direct perception of reality.
In Nelson Mandela's autobiography, 'Long Walk to Freedom', he describes his time in prison. It was pretty bad. But, he says, sometimes he was put in isolation. When in isolation, the only food they got was rice water three times a day (rice water is the water rice has been boiled in). That's it. That's all they got to 'eat.'
And when isolation was over and he was put back in the normal prison, the tiny amount of horrible food they usually ate seemed like a feast. The comparison with something worse changed his direct perception.
You and I come upon examples like this all the time. We've seen it in so many ways. But if you're like me, you have missed the vital lesson for the most part. I like to read true-life survival or adventure stories, as you can probably tell. One of the reasons I like to read them is that I feel so fortunate when I'm done reading. I get up and go about my day, freshly aware that I am not starving or freezing or dying of thirst, and it makes me feel rich and lucky and happy.
I like it when an author uses examples to illustrate a point, and I hope you do too, because I have another one for you: After returning to base camp from an arduous, intense brush with death in another true survival story, 'K2, The Savage Mountain', the authors write about how relaxing and wonderful it was to be back in base camp:
'At that moment we craved no delicacies, no entertainment, no luxuries. We felt like swimmers from a capsized boat who had just completed the long swim to shore. Merely being there was unspeakable luxury.'
One thing interesting from studies on happiness is that after having enough money to supply yourself with the basic necessities, money doesn't have much of an impact on your happiness level. People who are very wealthy are only slightly happier than people living modestly.
But there is an exception to this rule: If someone with a low income comes in frequent contact with people with higher incomes, it can make the lower income person unhappier with his circumstances.
People who are very poor in, say, India, and everyone in their village is very poor, can still be pretty happy. But a poor person in Beverly Hills who actually would be rich compared to the person in the poor Indian village, might be miserable because he is comparing himself to all the people around him who have so much money.
This may explain what's called a 'helper's high' (people who volunteer often feel happier) — they are getting a real-life, first-hand comparison between their own life (however bad they may have thought it was) and someone else's life (which is much worse).
I have another example for you to illustrate what happens when you transfer a person from one circumstance to an entirely different one. A man named Sichan Siv escaped Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge blood bath. He had to escape because the government was trying to execute anyone with an education.
His escape was very difficult and took a long time. He eventually made it to the United States and got a job at the Friendly Ice Cream restaurant, washing dishes, mopping floors, and taking out the trash for 16 hours a day — and he was very happy. He felt like the luckiest man in the world. 'I'm free!' he thought, 'Nobody's trying to kill me!'
Those of us who grew up in the United States would find his situation - working at such a hard job 16 hours a day and making so little money - almost intolerable. But that's because we are comparing it to our own lives.
But we're not stuck only making comparisons that come naturally. You can deliberately make any kind of comparison you want, and this is one place where your thoughts really make a difference." - Adam Khan
Excerpted from the book, ‘Viewfinder: How to Change the Way You Look at Things’, by Adam Khan and Klassy Evans.
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[Quote No.58207] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is also the problem that the desire for status can all too easily transform into a craving for fame, where we become obsessed with the breadth of our public renown. Yet it is well known that the very famous are often extremely miserable. Trapped in public lives and superficial relationships, and holding themselves together with a rich cocktail of antidepressants and other drugs. This is what prompted Louis Armstrong to say, 'You don’t have no fun at all if you get too famous.'" - Roman Krznaric
As quoted in his book, ‘How Should We live? Great Ideas from the Past for Everyday Life’.
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[Quote No.58211] Need Area: Friends > General
"Unfortunately, the fundamental concepts of [treating citizens like competent adults rather than incapable children - for example, with] dignity, respect, equality before the law and personal freedom are under attack by the nation's own government. That's why, if we want to restore a free society and create greater well-being and opportunity for all Americans, we have no choice but to fight for those principles." - Charles Koch
(1935-) American businessman and philanthropist.
Source: Koch, Charles (April 3, 2014). 'Instead of welcoming free debate, collectivists engage in character assassination.' "Charles Koch: I'm Fighting to Restore a Free Society". The Wall Street Journal.
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[Quote No.58217] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Propaganda and spin:] I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us." - Nancy Reagan
(1921 - 2016), actress who married the actor who later became the US President Ronald Reagan.
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[Quote No.58222] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual power and freedom versus state power and freedom: paternal, statist, interventionist political government philosophies like communism and] Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State." - Benito Mussolini
(1883-1945), Italian dictator during WW2. Source: New York Times, 11 January 1935.
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[Quote No.58260] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Empowered, free individuals and small, limited government:] The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.58261] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Perceived locus of control, individual freedom and personal responsibility:] Blaming other people for your condition is a total waste of time." - Betty Ford
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[Quote No.58267] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind." - James Wilson
(1742-1798) Member of Continental Congress, signed Declaration of Independence; U.S. Supreme Court Justice and delegate from Pennsylvania. Source: Lectures on Law, 1791.
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[Quote No.58272] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government:] The truth was that all men having power ought to be mistrusted to a certain degree." - James Madison
(1751 - 1836)
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[Quote No.58273] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government:] The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." - James Madison
(1751 - 1836)
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[Quote No.58278] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Beware paternalistic, interventionist, statist, social activists, politicians, and governments that want to politically empower themselves rather than educationally empower the individuals concerned:] The tragic truth is that the language of 'victimization' is the true victimizer - a great crippler of young minds and spirits. To teach young people ['learned helplessness' and lack of perceived personal locus of control -] that their lives are governed - not by their own actions, but by socioeconomic forces or government budgets or other mysterious and fiendish forces beyond their control - is to teach our children negativism, resignation, passivity, and despair." - Louis Sullivan
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[Quote No.58281] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Democracy's majority rule will never degenerate into mob rule so long as equal minimal rights are extended to all, especially minorities:] Bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source: First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801.
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[Quote No.58283] Need Area: Friends > General
"The task must be to banish from mankind's thoughts the idea that anybody has the right to use force [or fraud] against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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[Quote No.58286] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government and free market capitalism:] I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market." - John Stossel
(1947-) American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author and columnist. Source: interview in 'The Oregonian'.
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[Quote No.58287] Need Area: Friends > General
"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws." - Walt Whitman
(1819-1892). Source: 'Notes Left Over', 1881.
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[Quote No.58291] Need Area: Friends > General
"...the legislator [politician, government, etc], according to the ideas of the ancients, bears the same relation to mankind as the potter does to clay. Unfortunately, when this idea prevails, nobody wants to be the clay, and everyone wants to be the potter." - Frederic Bastiat
'Academic Degrees and Socialism', 1848.
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[Quote No.58293] Need Area: Friends > General
"[An unalienable human birth-right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and property:] Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human." - Isaiah Berlin
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[Quote No.58296] Need Area: Friends > General
"The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others [by force or fraud]. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor." - Isaiah Berlin
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[Quote No.58297] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Equal, unalienable human birth-right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and property:] I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, self-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them." - Isaiah Berlin
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[Quote No.58301] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority." - Eric Hoffer
(1902-1983) American author, philosopher, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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[Quote No.58314] Need Area: Friends > General
"Forgive yourself for the blindness that put you in the path of those who betrayed you. Sometimes a good heart doesn't see the bad." - Unknown
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[Quote No.58319] Need Area: Friends > General
"[All voters, bureaucrats and politicians must beware of falling into the corruption of crony capitalism, and thereby usurping the letter and spirit of representative democracy and the Bill of Rights:] This is a Government of the people by the people and for the people no longer. It is a Government of Corporation by Corporation and for Corporation." - Rutherford B Hayes
19th US President between 1877 and 1881.
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[Quote No.58333] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom and individualism:] At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society." - Robert F. Kennedy
(1925-1968), US Senator, Attorney General. Source: Speech, University of Capetown, 6 June 1966.
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[Quote No.58337] Need Area: Friends > General
"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy [as detailed in the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights]." - Margaret Thatcher
British Prime Minister
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[Quote No.58340] Need Area: Friends > General
"Behind the ostensible Government sits enthroned an invisible Government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics [i.e. crony capitalism rather than what is desirable - true free market capitalism and individual liberty], is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." - Theodore Roosevelt
(1858–1919). Quoted in 1906.
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[Quote No.58362] Need Area: Friends > General
"Life is fairer when individuals are [equally] free to make their own decisions." - John Stossel
New York Times bestselling journalist. Quote from his book, 'No, They Can't: Why Government Fails - But Individuals Succeed.'
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[Quote No.58367] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Song Lyrics expressing the attitude of 'live and let live' liberty - freedom from force and fraud:]
'Burn One Down'
...
My choice is what I choose to do
And if I'm causing no harm
It shouldn't bother you.
Your choice is who you choose to be
And if you're causin' no harm
Then you're alright with me.
...
" - Ben Harper
American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Song released 1995.
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[Quote No.58369] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics and honesty:] If you don't want anyone to find out, [and all the pain that will cause everyone, since decency forbids dishonesty to yourself and others, don't accept that if caught you'll have to lie, right from the get-go, just] don't do it!" - Chinese Proverb
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[Quote No.58370] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Song Lyrics about: individualism, diversity and 'live and let live' liberty:]
'It Takes Diff'rent Strokes'
Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum,
What might be right for you, may not be right for some.
...
But they got, Diff'rent Strokes.
It takes Diff'rent Strokes.
It takes Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
Everybody's got a special kind of story;
Everybody finds a way to shine.
It don't matter that you got not alot.
So what?
They'll have theirs, you'll have yours, and I'll have mine.
And together we'll be fine!
'Cuz it takes Diff'rent Strokes to move the world,
Yes it does.
It takes Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.
" - Alan Thicke, Gloria Loring and Al Burton
Theme song lyrics from the TV series, 'Diff'rent Strokes'. [http://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/diffrentstrokeslyrics.html ]
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[Quote No.58391] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The value and importance of individual freedom and personal responsibility for the realisation of each person's full productive potential and happiness for their own and others' good:] Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
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[Quote No.58393] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics, reciprocity and the Golden Rule of treating others as you and they would like to be treated:] King Solomon wrote: 'As water reflects a face back to face, so too one's heart is reflected back to him by another' (Proverbs 27:19).
We all want others to be friendly and kind to us. The behavior of others is not in our direct control, but our own behavior is. We play a large role in creating the world we live in, especially how others will behave toward us. If you behave toward others in a positive manner, they are much more likely to reciprocate." - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
Quoted in his book, 'Gateway to Happiness', p.136.
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[Quote No.58425] Need Area: Friends > General
"[For those citizens and voters who want security rather than opportunity from politicians and government, remember...] If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking...is freedom." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[Quote No.58428] Need Area: Friends > General
"If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world." - Edward Young
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[Quote No.58458] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics, reciprocity and the 'Golden Rule' of treating others as you and they would like to be treated:] Resolved, never to do anything which I should despise or think meanly of in another. Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge. Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life." - Jonathan Edwards
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[Quote No.58487] Need Area: Friends > General
"Wars [force and fraud] are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"[Anti-racism:] Life's piano can only produce the melodies of brotherhood when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary, and beautiful as the white keys." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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[Quote No.58497] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism and anti-racism:] We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color." - Maya Angelou
(1928 - ), poet
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"[Propaganda:] It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty." - Vince Flynn
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[Quote No.58506] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics:] Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking." - Nicolas de Chamfort
(1741-1794), writer.
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