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The year 1954

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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 know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes · 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 5From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 6If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? Confucius · 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 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · 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 18It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens · shelf 19Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson · shelf 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 21We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · shelf 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 23Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. John Donne · shelf 24Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · 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.29Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov 30Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 31Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 3The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · 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 6What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson · shelf 9Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · shelf 10Of things, some are in our power, and others are not. Epictetus · shelf 11I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath 12Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 13The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt · shelf 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony 16Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl · shelf 17Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 18I am still learning. Michelangelo 19Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 20The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud · shelf 21You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X 22It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington 23Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats 24You have a right to the work alone, never to its fruits. Let not the fruit of action be your motive, nor let… The Bhagavad Gita · shelf 25Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 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 29You cannot step twice into the same river. Heraclitus · shelf

March

1If 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 2Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles, and its devastation. Homer · shelf 3Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace · shelf 4The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt 5I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · shelf 6How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 7A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf 8I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston · shelf 9We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · shelf 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 11History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · shelf 12All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · shelf 13As 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 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · 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 19We 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 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 22I 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 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 24A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · shelf 25We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin · shelf 26Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl 27A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 28With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 29That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 30Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · shelf 31I think, therefore I am. René Descartes

April

1It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · 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.4I 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.5Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 6A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. Karl Marx · shelf 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 8Love 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 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 11What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · shelf 12I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 13Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 14To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · 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.17I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 21If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 22I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes 23To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare 24Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell · shelf 25The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid · 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 28I 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 29The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 30The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · shelf

May

1Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 2And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Paul the Apostle · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · 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 7A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume 8Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi · shelf 9We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan · shelf 10It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 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 13I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill 14Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · shelf 15Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · shelf 16To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare · shelf 17Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · shelf 18Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of reco… William Shakespeare · 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 21We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · shelf 24Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Susan Sontag · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck · shelf 27To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf 28Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 29Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 30I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 2The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · shelf 3Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Thucydides · 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 5All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf 6The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower 7I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 9If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain · shelf 10Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · shelf 11There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil · 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 14Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington · shelf 15The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells · shelf 16A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln 17Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · 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 20I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · shelf 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 22The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 23I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 24The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats · shelf 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe · 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 30I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank · shelf

July

1Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · shelf 4We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson 5We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · shelf 6Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf 7In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 8Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 9It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen · shelf 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 11Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 12I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 14One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir · 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 17To 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 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 19When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke · shelf 20That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong 21The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 22I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · shelf 23One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · shelf 24In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · shelf 25I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes · 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 27Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov · shelf 28From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 29If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · shelf 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · 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 6Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 7Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf 8I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 9Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love. This is an old rule. The Dhammapada · shelf 10It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens · shelf 11Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson · shelf 12Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 13We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · shelf 14Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne · shelf 15Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. John Donne · shelf 16Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky · shelf 17Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 18If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 19When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle · shelf 20The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois · shelf 21How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning · shelf 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker 23Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 24Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river. Jorge Luis Borges 25Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein · shelf 26The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · shelf 27You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt · shelf 28Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo 29What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2Of things, some are in our power, and others are not. Epictetus · shelf 3Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come; and when death is come, we are not. Epicurus · shelf 4The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · shelf 5The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt · shelf 6The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman · shelf 7So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · shelf 8Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor… Benjamin Franklin · shelf 11Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · 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 13Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 16You have a right to the work alone, never to its fruits. Let not the fruit of action be your motive, nor let… The Bhagavad Gita · shelf 17Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · shelf 18Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 19The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway · shelf 20Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · shelf 21You cannot step twice into the same river. Heraclitus · shelf 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles, and its devastation. Homer · 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 greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in… Victor Hugo · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston · shelf 30Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi

October

1Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson · shelf 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 3All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · shelf 4As 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 5From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph 6Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale 7Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 8Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller · shelf 9Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · shelf 10We 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 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 13I 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 14Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt 15What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche 16I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde 17He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · shelf 18A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 19With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 20That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 21We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · shelf 23It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · shelf 24Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr. · 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 28A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. Karl Marx · shelf 29I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · 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

1It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 2What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · shelf 3I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 4Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 5To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 6I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 7In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus 8I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 9We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan 10Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 11Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor… Benjamin Franklin 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 14Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 15Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell · shelf 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine · shelf 18Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker · shelf 19We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 20The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · 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 23And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Paul the Apostle · shelf 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 26Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. The Qur’an · shelf 27You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke · 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 29Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi · shelf 30We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill

December

1The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks 2He seems to me equal to the gods, that man who sits facing you and listens close to your sweet speaking. Sappho · shelf 3Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · shelf 4I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 5We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion 6Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · 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 9Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of reco… William Shakespeare · shelf 10Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 11Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr.12We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 13The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates · shelf 14The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · shelf 15Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Susan Sontag · shelf 16It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen 17Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi 18To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf 19Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 20The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla · shelf 21I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 22The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 26For the love of money is the root of all evil. Paul the Apostle · shelf 27All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf 28I am a woman’s rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. Sojourner Truth · shelf 29I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf 30The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain · shelf 31If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain · shelf

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