"We are not our brotherâ€™s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community."

-- Maya Angelou

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“Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldnâ€™t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”
“William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.”
“People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.”
“Every individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living.”
“Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.”
“Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.”
“We are in this life as it were in another man's house.... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.”

Source : "Meditations", XXXVIII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 440-455), 1922.
“Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.”

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