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• Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

  Confucius

  Snow, Complaining, Roof

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• What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Truth, Thinking

  Time Enough for Love (p. 264)

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• The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?

  Gerry Spence

  Hurt, Eye, Liberty

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.19, Macmillan

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• I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Black, Would Be, Done

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Believe, Humility

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• What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

  Robert E. Lee

  Beautiful, Peace, War

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.206, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• ..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

  Susanna Clarke

  Mad, Gone, Argument

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• Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Majority, Civil Disobedience

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Coolidge 2; Douglass 7; Andrew Jackson 7; John Knox 1; Wendell Phillips 3

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• There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.

  Dawn Powell

  New York, Home, Cities

  Dawn Powell (2001). “Novels, 1930-1942”

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• Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.

  Harper Lee

  Flower, Good Luck, Two

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

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• Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Heart, Reason

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• A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Happiness, Country

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.390, Delphi Classics

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• If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Artist, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 01, 2017

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• We, more than others, should carry jumper and tow cables not only in our cars, but also in our hearts, by which means we can send the needed boost or charge of encouragement or the added momentum to mortal neighbors.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Encouragement, Heart, Mean

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• [Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Community, Path, Approach

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1973). “A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation”

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• You know . . . a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Stars, Hate, School

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

  Roberto Bolano

  Prison

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• Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Children, Crazy, Sleep

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.182, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Thinking, People, Three

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• I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.

  E. B. White

  Heart, Worry, Advice

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.

  Kay Ryan

  Country, Sweet, Two

  Kay Ryan (2007). “The Niagara River: Poems”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spring, Desire, Essentials

  Bertrand Russell (1975). “The conquest of happiness”

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• And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Men, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.298, Penguin

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• Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile...But this happy sensation wears off. After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.

  Alan Lightman

  Men, Two, Doors

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• Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David’s answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement.

  Kim Harrison

  Agreement, Years, Iron

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