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The year 1998

153 days are tied to something that happened. The rest come from the shelf, one stable line for the year. February 29 is always here.

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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 2The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain · 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 5There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil · shelf 6Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · 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 14I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · shelf 15I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr.16Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Susan Sontag 17Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin 18The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats · shelf 19I accuse. Émile Zola · shelf 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 21Facts are stubborn things. John Adams · shelf 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 23There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou · shelf 24I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · 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 31In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 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 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 6Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven · shelf 9If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · shelf 10To 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 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 13You too, child? Julius Caesar · shelf 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony 16One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · shelf 17In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · shelf 18I am still learning. Michelangelo 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 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 24I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 25Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · 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 29We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf

March

1Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 2Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf 3I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 4The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt 5It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens · shelf 6How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 11Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky · shelf 12Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 13If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 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 19I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · 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 22You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 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 26Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl 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 30The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · shelf 31Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne

April

1The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman · 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 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 Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 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 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 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 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.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 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 21I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · 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 24I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston · shelf 25We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · 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 28All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · shelf 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 30Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · shelf

May

1Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats · shelf 2Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · 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 8I 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 9The journey of a thousand li commences with a single step. Laozi · shelf 10A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · 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 14With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 15That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 16Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · shelf 17Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · shelf 18It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · 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 21It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. Karl Marx · shelf 24I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville · shelf 27It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 28What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · shelf 29I am a woman’s rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. Sojourner Truth 30Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 2If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison · shelf 3I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 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 5If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · shelf 6The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower 7If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 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 11The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid · 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 14I 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 15The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 16A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln 17Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · 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 took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 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 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 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 30Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · shelf

July

1Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · shelf 4We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson 5Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 6If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 7We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 8The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates · shelf 9The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · shelf 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 11We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · shelf 12I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 14Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 15I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank 16The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells 17The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 19The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · 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 22All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf 23I 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 24I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf 25The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain · 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 27Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · shelf 28There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil · shelf 29Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire · shelf 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington · 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 6I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · shelf 7A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf · shelf 8The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 9I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 10The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats · shelf 11I accuse. Émile Zola · shelf 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 still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank · shelf 17Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 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 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker 23In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · 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 a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen · shelf 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 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.29Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2To 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 3Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river. Jorge Luis Borges · shelf 4When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke · shelf 5You too, child? Julius Caesar · shelf 6The die is cast. Julius Caesar · shelf 7I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · shelf 8One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes · shelf 11The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · 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 13From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill · shelf 16I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 17Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · shelf 18Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 19Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? Confucius · shelf 20Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius · shelf 21We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · 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 27Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · shelf 30Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi

October

1Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. John Donne · shelf 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 3Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 4If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · 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 7How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning · shelf 8To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes · shelf 9Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 10I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · shelf 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · shelf 13You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt · 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 17Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson · shelf 18Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · shelf 19Of things, some are in our power, and others are not. Epictetus · shelf 20Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come; and when death is come, we are not. Epicurus · shelf 21We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt · shelf 23The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman · shelf 24So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · 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 28Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 29The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud · 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

1Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 2You 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 3Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · shelf 4I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale · shelf 5The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway · shelf 6Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · shelf 7In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus 8If 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 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 wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf 15I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston · shelf 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson · shelf 18History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · shelf 19We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 20As 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 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 23Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · shelf 26We 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 27I 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 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 29I 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 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 2We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin · shelf 3He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · 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 6That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · 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 9It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · 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.12It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · shelf 13The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 14A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. Karl Marx · shelf 15I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · 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 18It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 19What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · shelf 20I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 21Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 22To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 26I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · shelf 27If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · shelf 28What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 29If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 30Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 31Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf

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