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The year 1941

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January

1Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · kept 2I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 3The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero 4If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton 5The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · shelf 6Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Thucydides · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain · shelf 12When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke 13I accuse. Émile Zola 14There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil · shelf 15I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr.16Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Susan Sontag 17Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin 18The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells · shelf 19Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman · shelf 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 21We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde · shelf 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 23I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · shelf 24A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 27I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 28Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr.29These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 30The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt 31Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · shelf

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 3Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 4The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks 5If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton 6That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · shelf 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf 9In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 10Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 11I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath 12A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln 13Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei 16One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir · shelf 17I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven · shelf 18If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison 19To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and… William Blake · shelf 20Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river. Jorge Luis Borges · shelf 21We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 22It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington 23The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois 24I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · shelf 25One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · shelf 26The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in… Victor Hugo 27Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck 28To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne 29Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov · shelf

March

1From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 2If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · shelf 3We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill · shelf 4With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln 5Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · shelf 6I am still learning. Michelangelo 7Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? Confucius · shelf 8Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius · shelf 9We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 11Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf 12I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 13Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love. This is an old rule. The Dhammapada · shelf 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 17Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius 18Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 19Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. John Donne · shelf 20The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid 21The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach 22If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 24The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois · shelf 25How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning · shelf 26Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost 27Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 28I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · shelf 29Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein · shelf 30The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · shelf 31Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne

April

1April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot · shelf 2I accuse. Émile Zola 3I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr.4There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou 5Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 6Of things, some are in our power, and others are not. Epictetus · shelf 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 8The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · shelf 9Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 10So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald 11So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · shelf 12Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl · shelf 13Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 14Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor… Benjamin Franklin · shelf 15He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci 16Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr.17Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost · shelf 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 21Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · shelf 22Dare to know. Immanuel Kant 23To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare 24Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · shelf 25You cannot step twice into the same river. Heraclitus · shelf 26In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius 27I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft 28Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace · shelf 29What happens to a dream deferred? Langston Hughes · shelf 30I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · shelf

May

1The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in… Victor Hugo · shelf 2A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · shelf 5The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx 6The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud 7Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore 8As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere be… Carl Jung · shelf 9Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · shelf 10Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats · shelf 11The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman 12Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale 13All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich 14We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because th… John F. Kennedy · shelf 15I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by th… Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 16Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 17I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 18The journey of a thousand li commences with a single step. Laozi · shelf 19You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X 20Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill 21He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 24That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · shelf 27It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · shelf 28Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr. · shelf 29I am a woman’s rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. Sojourner Truth 30It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. Karl Marx · shelf 2I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · shelf 3Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitef… The Gospel of Matthew · shelf 4We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill 5It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 6I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 7I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 9To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 10I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 11If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison · shelf 12I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank 13I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats 14If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · shelf 15What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 16History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 17Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 18Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill 19The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal 20The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid · shelf 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker · shelf 23I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I c… Theodore Parker · shelf 24The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 27Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller 28Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 29It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 30Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. The Qur’an · shelf

July

1You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi · shelf 4Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams 5It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · shelf 6He seems to me equal to the gods, that man who sits facing you and listens close to your sweet speaking. Sappho · shelf 7Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · shelf 8It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Seneca · shelf 9Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · shelf 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 11To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare · shelf 12The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 14Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 15I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank 16The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells 17The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates · shelf 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 19Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Susan Sontag · shelf 20We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton 21The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 22To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf 23Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 24The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla · shelf 25I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 26As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere be… Carl Jung 27Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 28The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · shelf 29Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Thucydides · shelf 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf

August

1Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville 2Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin 3If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass 4If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley 5That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong 6There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil · shelf 7Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire · shelf 8It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington · shelf 9Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington · shelf 10The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells · shelf 11Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman · shelf 12Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · shelf 13We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde · shelf 14I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde · shelf 15I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · shelf 16A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf · shelf 17The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 18I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 19The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats · shelf 20I accuse. Émile Zola · shelf 21Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe · shelf 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker 23Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · shelf 24I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I c… Theodore Parker 25I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank · shelf 26Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 27Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · shelf 28I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by th… Martin Luther King Jr.29That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · shelf 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 3It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen · shelf 4The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach · shelf 5Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 6Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin · shelf 7Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf 8One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · shelf 11To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and… William Blake · shelf 12We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because th… John F. Kennedy 13When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15The die is cast. Julius Caesar · shelf 16I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · shelf 17One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · shelf 18Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson 19I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes · shelf 20The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 21Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov · shelf 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · shelf 24So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald 25The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner 26April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot 27The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius · shelf 30Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel

October

1Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 3I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 4Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love. This is an old rule. The Dhammapada · shelf 5From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph 6A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier 7Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 8We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · shelf 9Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne · shelf 10Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. John Donne · shelf 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 13If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 14Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt 15There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil 16I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde 17To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes · shelf 18Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 19I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · shelf 20Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein · shelf 21We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt · shelf 23April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot · shelf 24What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 25The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer 26Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein 27I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath 28Of things, some are in our power, and others are not. Epictetus · shelf 29Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come; and when death is come, we are not. Epicurus · shelf 30Facts are stubborn things. John Adams 31Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats

November

1The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman · shelf 2So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · shelf 3Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl · shelf 4Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 5Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor… Benjamin Franklin · shelf 6Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 7We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie 8Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost · shelf 9We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan 10Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 11Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky 12We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton 13Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo 14The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway · shelf 15Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · shelf 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Hillel · shelf 18Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles, and its devastation. Homer · shelf 19That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln 20What happens to a dream deferred? Langston Hughes · shelf 21Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire 22What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot 23A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · shelf 26Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson · shelf 27History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · shelf 28To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and… William Blake 29As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere be… Carl Jung · shelf 30If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm

December

1The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks 2Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 3Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller · shelf 4You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke 5We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion 6I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by th… Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 7The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero 8Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace 9The journey of a thousand li commences with a single step. Laozi · shelf 10Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson 11The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 12He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · shelf 13A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 14With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 15That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 16I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven 17Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi 18It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · shelf 19Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr. · shelf 20You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X · shelf 21It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · shelf 22The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 26Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville · shelf 27It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 28What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · shelf 29I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 30Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 31To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · shelf

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