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The year 1977

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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 2This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · 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 5Of things, some are in our power, and others are not. Epictetus · shelf 6Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come; and when death is come, we are not. Epicurus · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl · 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 14Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · 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 18Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 19You 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 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 21I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale · shelf 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · shelf 24You cannot step twice into the same river. Heraclitus · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles, and its devastation. Homer · 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 31A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 3Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson · 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 6As 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 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats · shelf 9Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 10Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller · 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 13I 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 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei 16The journey of a thousand li commences with a single step. Laozi · shelf 17A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · 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 19He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · shelf 20A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · 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 24Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · shelf 25It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · 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 29The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf

March

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 4With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln 5It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 6I am still learning. Michelangelo 7I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 8Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 9To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 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 am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 13I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · shelf 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche · 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 19Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell · 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 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 24The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 25The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · 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 27And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Paul the Apostle · shelf 28Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz · shelf 29I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 30Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. The Qur’an · shelf 31Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne

April

1Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 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 6Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · shelf 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 8Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · 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 11Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · shelf 12Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of reco… William Shakespeare · shelf 13Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 14If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley · 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.17The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · shelf 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 21To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf 22Dare to know. Immanuel Kant 23To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare 24I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 25The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau · 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 28Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Thucydides · shelf 29For the love of money is the root of all evil. Paul the Apostle · shelf 30All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf

May

1I 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 2I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain · 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 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 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 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 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 21Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · shelf 24There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 27Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · shelf 28Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · 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 30We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 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 4We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill 5Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 6I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 7Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 9I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven · shelf 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 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 14You too, child? Julius Caesar · shelf 15The die is cast. Julius Caesar · shelf 16History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 17One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · 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 lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 22From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 23If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · shelf 24We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill · shelf 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · 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 30We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf

July

1Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 4Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams 5It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens · shelf 6Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson · shelf 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 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 11Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky · shelf 12The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 14When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle · 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 every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes · shelf 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 19I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · 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 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 25This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · 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 27Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · shelf 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 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt · 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 6Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 7The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud · shelf 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 9And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei · shelf 10Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 11You 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 12Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · shelf 13I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale · shelf 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 16You cannot step twice into the same river. Heraclitus · shelf 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 19Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace · shelf 20What happens to a dream deferred? Langston Hughes · shelf 21I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · shelf 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker 23A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · 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 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 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.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 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller · shelf 3Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · shelf 4We 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 5I 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 6Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 7I 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 8The journey of a thousand li commences with a single step. Laozi · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin · shelf 11He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · 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 13With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · shelf 16Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · shelf 17It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · shelf 18Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson 19You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · shelf 21The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · 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 27What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 30Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel

October

1I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 3I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 4I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · 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 7If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 8Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 9Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 10Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell · shelf 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine · shelf 13Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker · 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 17Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 18And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Paul the Apostle · shelf 19Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz · shelf 20I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 21We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke · shelf 23Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · shelf 24Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi · 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 28Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · shelf 29It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Seneca · 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

1To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare · shelf 2Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · shelf 3Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of reco… William Shakespeare · shelf 4Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 5If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 6We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 7We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie 8The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 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 present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla · shelf 15I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 18The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · shelf 19That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln 20For the love of money is the root of all evil. Paul the Apostle · 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 23I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain · shelf 26Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · shelf 27There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil · 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 29It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington · 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 2Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman · shelf 3Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · shelf 4You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke 5We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion 6I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · 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 9I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · 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 12Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe · shelf 13Facts are stubborn things. John Adams · shelf 14Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · shelf 15There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou · 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 18Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · shelf 19Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · shelf 20That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · shelf 21We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · shelf 22Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 26The 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 27Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 28Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin · shelf 29Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf 30One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir · shelf 31I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven · shelf

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