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The year 2012

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 2A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf · shelf 3The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero 4If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton 5The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats · shelf 6I accuse. Émile Zola · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8Facts are stubborn things. John Adams · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank · 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 14Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · 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 18In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 19Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 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 · shelf 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 23Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin · shelf 24Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven · 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 31You too, child? Julius Caesar · shelf

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 3One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · 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 lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 9If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · shelf 10We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill · shelf 11I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath 12Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 13The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · shelf 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony 16We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf 17Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 18I am still learning. Michelangelo 19I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 20Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love. This is an old rule. The Dhammapada · 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 24We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · shelf 25Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne · 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 29If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf

March

1When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle · shelf 2The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois · shelf 3How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning · shelf 4The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt 5Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 6How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 7Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein · shelf 8The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · shelf 9You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt · shelf 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 11What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 12This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · shelf 13Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson · shelf 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come; and when death is come, we are not. Epicurus · 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 19The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman · 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 22Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 24Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 25The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud · 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 27And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei · shelf 28Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 29You 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 30Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · shelf 31Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz

April

1The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway · 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 6Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace · shelf 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 8I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · 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 11I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston · shelf 12We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · shelf 13Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson · shelf 14History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · 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.17Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · shelf 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 21Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · 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 24Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 25I 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 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 28We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin · shelf 29He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · shelf 30A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · shelf

May

1With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 2That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · 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 8It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · shelf 9The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 10A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. Karl Marx · 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 14It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 15What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · shelf 16I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 17Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 18To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · 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 21I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · shelf 24What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 27Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 28Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell · shelf 29Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 30These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1I 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 2The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 3The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · 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 5And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Paul the Apostle · shelf 6The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower 7I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 9You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke · shelf 10Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · shelf 11Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi · 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 14He seems to me equal to the gods, that man who sits facing you and listens close to your sweet speaking. Sappho · shelf 15Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · shelf 16A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln 17Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · 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 20Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · shelf 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 22Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 23If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 24We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 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 30To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf

July

1Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 4We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson 5Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 6The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · shelf 7Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Thucydides · shelf 8For the love of money is the root of all evil. Paul the Apostle · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 11I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf 12I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 14Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · 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 17It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington · shelf 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 19The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells · 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 22We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde · shelf 23I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde · shelf 24I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf · 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 27I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 28The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats · shelf 29I accuse. Émile Zola · shelf 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31Facts are stubborn things. John Adams · 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 6Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · shelf 7That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · shelf 8We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · shelf 9Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf 10In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 11Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 12It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen · shelf 13The 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 14Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 15Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin · shelf 16Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf 17One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir · shelf 18I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven · shelf 19If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · shelf 20To 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 21Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river. Jorge Luis Borges · shelf 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker 23You too, child? Julius Caesar · 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 25I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · shelf 26One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · shelf 27In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · shelf 28Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 29The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill · shelf 3I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 4Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · shelf 5The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · shelf 6Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? Confucius · shelf 7Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius · shelf 8We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf 11I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · 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 13It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 16We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · shelf 17Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne · shelf 18Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 19Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky · shelf 20Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 21If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois · 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, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · shelf 30Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi

October

1April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot · shelf 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 3This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · shelf 4Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson · 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 7Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come; and when death is come, we are not. Epicurus · shelf 8The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · shelf 9The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt · shelf 10The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman · shelf 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl · shelf 13Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 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 17Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost · shelf 18And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei · shelf 19Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 20You 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 21We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale · shelf 23The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway · shelf 24Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · 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 28Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace · shelf 29What happens to a dream deferred? Langston Hughes · 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

1A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf 2I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston · shelf 3We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · shelf 4Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson · shelf 5History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · shelf 6All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · shelf 7In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus 8Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · 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 14I 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 15Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17The journey of a thousand li commences with a single step. Laozi · shelf 18A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · shelf 19We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 20He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · 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 23That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · shelf 26It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · shelf 27Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee 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 29It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · shelf 30The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain

December

1The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks 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 4I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 5We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion 6What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · 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 9To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · 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.12I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 13I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · shelf 14If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · shelf 15What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 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 18Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 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 · shelf 21These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine · shelf 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 26Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 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 31You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke · shelf

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