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The year 1986

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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 2If 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 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 5What happens to a dream deferred? Langston Hughes · shelf 6I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson · 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 14As 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 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 18Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller · shelf 19Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · shelf 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 21I 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 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 23I 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 24The journey of a thousand li commences with a single step. Laozi · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin · 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 31Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · shelf

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 3Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr. · 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 6The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · shelf 9Love 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 10Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville · 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 13I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony 16I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 17If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison · shelf 18I am still learning. Michelangelo 19I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · shelf 20If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · 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 24Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell · 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 29I 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

March

1The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 2The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · shelf 3Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 4The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt 5Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz · shelf 6How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 7Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. The Qur’an · shelf 8You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke · shelf 9Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · shelf 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 11We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan · shelf 12It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · shelf 13He seems to me equal to the gods, that man who sits facing you and listens close to your sweet speaking. Sappho · shelf 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · 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 19Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · 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 Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 24The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates · shelf 25The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 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 27We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · shelf 28Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck · shelf 29To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf 30Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 31Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne

April

1I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · 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 6For the love of money is the root of all evil. Paul the Apostle · shelf 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 8I 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 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 11If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain · shelf 12Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · shelf 13There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil · shelf 14Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire · 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 way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells · shelf 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 21I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde · 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 24The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 25I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · 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 28Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe · shelf 29Facts are stubborn things. John Adams · shelf 30Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · shelf

May

1There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou · shelf 2I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · 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 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 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 14Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin · shelf 15Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf 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 the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · 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 21When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23The die is cast. Julius Caesar · shelf 24I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · shelf 27I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes · shelf 28The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · 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 30From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill · shelf 2I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 3Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · 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 5Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? Confucius · shelf 6The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower 7We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 9Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf 10I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 11Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love. This is an old rule. The Dhammapada · 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 14Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 15We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · shelf 16A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln 17Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. John Donne · 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 20If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 22The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois · shelf 23How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning · shelf 24To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes · shelf 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · 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 30April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot · shelf

July

1What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson · shelf 4We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson 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 7The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · shelf 8The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt · shelf 9The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman · shelf 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 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 12I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 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 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 17And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei · shelf 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 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 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 22The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · shelf 24You cannot step twice into the same river. Heraclitus · shelf 25If 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 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 27Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace · shelf 28What happens to a dream deferred? Langston Hughes · shelf 29I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · shelf 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · 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 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 7Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · shelf 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 11Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · 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 · shelf 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 14Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · 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. · shelf 16The journey of a thousand li commences with a single step. Laozi · shelf 17A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · shelf 18We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin · shelf 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 21With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker 23Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · 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 25It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · shelf 26Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr. · shelf 27You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X · 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.29The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville · shelf 3It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 4What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · shelf 5I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 6Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 7To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 8I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 11I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · 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 13What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 16Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 17Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell · shelf 18Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 19These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine · shelf 20Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker · shelf 21I 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 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · 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 27I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke · shelf 30Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi

October

1Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi · shelf 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 3It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · shelf 4He seems to me equal to the gods, that man who sits facing you and listens close to your sweet speaking. Sappho · 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 7Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · shelf 8Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · shelf 9To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare · shelf 10Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · shelf 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 13If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley · 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 17Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Susan Sontag · shelf 18We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · shelf 19Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck · shelf 20To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf 21We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla · shelf 23I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 24The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau · 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 28For the love of money is the root of all evil. Paul the Apostle · shelf 29All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · 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 report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain · shelf 2If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain · shelf 3Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · shelf 4There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil · shelf 5Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire · shelf 6It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington · shelf 7In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus 8The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells · 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 14A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf · shelf 15The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats · shelf 18I accuse. Émile Zola · shelf 19We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 20Facts are stubborn things. John Adams · 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 still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank · shelf 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · shelf 26Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · shelf 27That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · 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 29Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · 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 2It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen · shelf 3The 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 4I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 5We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion 6Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · 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 9If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · 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.12When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke · shelf 13You too, child? Julius Caesar · shelf 14The die is cast. Julius Caesar · shelf 15I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · 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 18I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes · shelf 19The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 20Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov · shelf 21From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 22If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 26The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · shelf 27Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? Confucius · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius · shelf 29We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf 30Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 31Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf

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