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• Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Writing, Rights

  George Orwell (1998). “It is what I think, 1947-1948”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. We transmit to you, the next generation, the total sum of our knowledge. Yours is the responsibility to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Children, Believe, Knowledge

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• Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

  U Thant

  Respect, Truth, Morality

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• I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Soul, Spirit

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• I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Health, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

  William Matthews

  Desks

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• The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Growing Up, Hard Work

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• Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

  Frank Herbert

  Kindness, Cynicism, Cruelty

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.434, Penguin

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• It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe.

  Harry Reid

  Believe, Government, Skills

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• When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

  Kofi Annan

  Women, Generations, Benefits

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• Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

  Margaret Fuller

  Education, Knives, Training

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.60

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• Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Winning

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Science, Soul

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.27, University Press of America

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• Courage is a kind of salvation.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Courage, Philosophical

  Plato (1883). “Plato's Best Thoughts”

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• A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Dog, Buddhist

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• Doubt everything. Find your own light.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Light, Doubt

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• Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Animal, Men

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• Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles to help us succeed. We've built strong democracies to protect the freedoms given to us by an Almighty God. We've welcomed immigrants, who have helped us thrive. We've built prosperous economies by rewarding innovation and risk-taking and trade. And we've built an enduring alliance to confront terrorists and tyrants.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Two Nations, Israel

  George W. Bush's Remarks with Prime Minister Olmert in Israel, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2008.

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• Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

  George Orwell

  Democratic Socialism, Serious Work, Lines

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Children, Believe, Unconditional Love

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.16, Vintage

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• The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Doe, World

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.95, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Once (says an Author; where I need not say)
  Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way;
  Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew stong;
  While Scale in Hand Dame Justice pass'd along
  Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws.
  Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause,
  Dame Justice wighing long the doubtful Right
  Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight.
  The cause of strife remov'd so rarely well,
  "There take" (says Justice), "take ye each a shell.
  We thrive at Westminster on Fools like you:
  'Twas a fat oyster - live in peace - Adieu."

  Pope Alexander VI

  Winning, Sight, Hands

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• Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Art

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• The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

  Plato

  Community, Principles, Riches

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.200

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