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  Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Silence, Holocaust

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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• O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry.
  We thank thee for health and remember the sick.
  We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless.
  We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved.
  May these remembrances stir us to service,
  That thy gifts to us may be used for others.
  Amen.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Father, Sick, May

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• Bravery never goes out of fashion.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Memorial Day, Fashion, Courage

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1891). “The four Georges. Sketches and travels in London”

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• The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

  Arthur Koestler

  Veterans Day, Military, War

  Janus (1978) prologue

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• As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.836, Best Books on

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• Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?

  William Wordsworth

  Faithful, Mind, Forget

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.184

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• Wherever you are, I am there also.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Love, Wherever You Are

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• There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

  William J. Clinton

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

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• Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Perverseness, Never Ending

  1846 Of the significance of the bird in his poem'The Raven'.'The Philosophy of Composition', in Graham's Magazine, Apr.

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• I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

  Henry Scott Holland

  Memorial, Death Of A Loved One, Dying

  Henry Scott Holland, “Death Is Nothing At All”

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• It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

  Louis Pasteur

  Motivational, Hero, Difficulty

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• If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

  Frederick Buechner

  Children, Things To Do, Childish Things

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

  Plautus

  Remember

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• You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Order, Yesterday, Mind

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. I”, p.90

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• When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

  Sara Zarr

  Memories, Done, Remember

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Story of a Girl”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Silence, Holocaust

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

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• Grace and remembrance be to you both.

  William Shakespeare

  Anniversary, Wedding Anniversary, Grace

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.349

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• No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Memories, Causes

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.317, Random House

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• Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Memorial Day, Men, Bravery

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• As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sorrow, Bitter, Should

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Reading Poetry, Literature

  Letter to John Taylor, 27 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 238

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• Departed suns their trails of splendor drew
  Across departed summers: whispers came
  From voices, long ago resolved again
  Into the primeval Silence, and we twain,
  Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same,
  As in a spectral mirror wandered there.

  Bayard Taylor

  Summer, Mirrors, Self

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• Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Life, Death, Fear

  Bertolt Brecht, Maksim Gorky (1978). “The mother”, Grove/Atlantic

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• Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.

  Grace Ogot

  Death, Sunset, Looks

  Grace Ogot (1988). “Land Without Thunder”, p.133, East African Publishers

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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