"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the suffering of millions, and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty, too, will end, and that peace and tranquility will reign again."
-- Anne Frank
"We think sometimes when things don't go the right way, when we suffer a defeat, that all has ended. Not true. It is only a beginning, always. Greatness comes not when things always go good for you, but the greatness comes when you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.... Always give your best. Never get discouraged, never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you, but those that hate don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."
"When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit. Which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"When written in Chinese, the word Īcrisisā is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
-- John F. Kennedy
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man, I take pride in the words: Ich bin ein Berliner." (Speech at West Berlin City Hall, June 26, 1963)
-- John F. Kennedy
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
-- Abraham Lincoln
" I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend your right to say it, with my life."
--Unknown
"Love it or leave it"
--Unknown
" God helps those who help themselves"
--Benjamin Franklin
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