"The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable.”

Source : Edna O'Brien (2002). “The Lonely Girl”, Plume
“I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.”
“The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true”
“Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.”
“Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.”

Source : Letter 164 in 'Works' (1863) vol. 1, p. 438
“We demand from others only what we fail to give ourselves”
“Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.”
“Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.”

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