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"We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger." --Tad Williams



"If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field." --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne



"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." --William Shakespeare



"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." --David Star Jordan



"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." --Frederick Douglass



"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



"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these - that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been." --C. Hoppe



"Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan." --Abraham Lincoln



"Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts." --Laurence Sterne



"We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach." --Bertrand Russell



"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." --Martin Luther King Jr.



"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." --Martin Luther King Jr.



"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see." --Martin Luther King Jr.



"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nineth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words." --Paul Engle



"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. " --Alvin Toffler



"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs." --Joan Didion



"Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can "do" drugs, "have" sex, "make" babies, and "get" money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents? " --Thomas Szasz



"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny." --Albert Ellis



"I don't see the point of being a human being if you're not going to be responsible to your fellow human beings. Selfishness thefts away the human and reduces you to just a being." --Candea Core-Starke



"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace" --William Ewart Gladstone



"The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists." --William J. Clinton



"Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace." --Francesco Petrarch



"Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination." --Robert Fulghum



"One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings." --Franklin Thomas



"Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. " --John Comenius



"I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. " --author unknown



"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." --Rita Mae Brown



"See, the human mind is kind of like... a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience." --Jane Wagner



"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. " --Oliver W. Holmes



"No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions." --Henry Ward Beecher



"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself" --Benjamin Franklin



"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad." --Norm Papernick



"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." --unknown author



"whoever said nothing is impossible, never tried slamming a revolving door." --unknown author