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History, a distillation of rumour.

- Thomas Carlyle

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. (Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927)

- Willa Cather

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

Though friendship is not quick to burn,
It is explosive stuff.

- May Sarton

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

- Margaret Laurence

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Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather, achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

- William Hastie

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishment after I'm dead.

- Kurt Vonnegut

Look to your health -- and value it next to a good conscience; for health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.

- Izaak Walton

The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

- William James

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

- Aldous Huxley

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