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The year 2013

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 2We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan · 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 5Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · shelf 6It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Seneca · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of reco… William Shakespeare · 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 14We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · 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 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 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 21Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 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 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · shelf 27I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 28Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr.29These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 30The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt 31I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 3Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · 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 6It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington · shelf 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells · shelf 9Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman · shelf 10Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · shelf 11I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath 12A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln 13I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · shelf 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei 16I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 17The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats · shelf 18If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison 19Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe · shelf 20Facts are stubborn things. John Adams · shelf 21We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 22It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington 23The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois 24Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 25Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · 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 29Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf

March

1In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 2Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 3It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen · shelf 4With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln 5Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 6I am still learning. Michelangelo 7Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf 8One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir · shelf 9I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven · shelf 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 11To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and… William Blake · shelf 12Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river. Jorge Luis Borges · shelf 13When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke · shelf 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · 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 know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes · 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 22From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 24We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill · shelf 25I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 26Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost 27The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · shelf 28Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? Confucius · shelf 29Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius · shelf 30We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf 31Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne

April

1Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf 2I accuse. Émile Zola 3I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr.4There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou 5Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 6Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 8Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne · 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 11Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 12If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 13When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle · shelf 14The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois · 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.17Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 21You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt · shelf 22Dare to know. Immanuel Kant 23To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare 24This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson · 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 28Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come; and when death is come, we are not. Epicurus · shelf 29The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · shelf 30The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt · shelf

May

1The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman · shelf 2So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 5The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx 6The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud 7Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore 8Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost · shelf 9And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei · shelf 10Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 11The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman 12Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale 13All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich 14The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway · shelf 15Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · shelf 16You cannot step twice into the same river. Heraclitus · shelf 17If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Hillel · shelf 18Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles, and its devastation. Homer · shelf 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, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf 24I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson · shelf 27History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · shelf 28All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · 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 30Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 2Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller · shelf 3Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · shelf 4We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill 5I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by th… Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 6I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 7I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 9A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · shelf 10We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin · shelf 11He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · shelf 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 14That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 15Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · shelf 16History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 17It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · 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 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · shelf 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 22A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. Karl Marx · shelf 23I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · shelf 24Love 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 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · 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 philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · shelf

July

1I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 4Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams 5If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · shelf 6What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 7If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 8Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 9Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 11The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid · shelf 12The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 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 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 17Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 19Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz · shelf 20We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton 21The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 22You must 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 25We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan · 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 27He seems to me equal to the gods, that man who sits facing you and listens close to your sweet speaking. Sappho · shelf 28Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · shelf 29It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Seneca · shelf 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · 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 6We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 7The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates · shelf 8The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · shelf 9Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Susan Sontag · shelf 10We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · shelf 11Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck · shelf 12To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf 13Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 14The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla · shelf 15I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 16The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 17Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 18The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · shelf 19Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Thucydides · shelf 20For the love of money is the root of all evil. Paul the Apostle · shelf 21All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker 23I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf 24I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I c… Theodore Parker 25If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain · shelf 26Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · shelf 27There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil · shelf 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.29It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington · shelf 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · shelf 3We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde · shelf 4I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde · shelf 5I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · shelf 6A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf · shelf 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 8I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10I accuse. Émile Zola · shelf 11Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe · 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 13Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank · shelf 16Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 17Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · shelf 18Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson 19That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · shelf 20We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · shelf 21Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · 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 27Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir · shelf 30Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel

October

1If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · shelf 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 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 5From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph 6A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier 7I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · shelf 8One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · shelf 9In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · shelf 10I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes · shelf 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov · shelf 13From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 14Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt 15There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil 16I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde 17Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · shelf 18The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · shelf 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 live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 23Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf 24I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · 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 28Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 29We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · 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

1Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky · shelf 2Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 3If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 4When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle · shelf 5The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois · shelf 6How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning · shelf 7We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie 8Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 9We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan 10Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 11Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky 12We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton 13Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo 14What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 15This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · shelf 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · shelf 18Of things, some are in our power, and others are not. Epictetus · shelf 19That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln 20The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · 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 23So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · shelf 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 26Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor… Benjamin Franklin · shelf 27Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · 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 29Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost · 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 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 4You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke 5We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion 6Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · 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 9Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles, and its devastation. Homer · shelf 10Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson 11The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 12I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · shelf 13The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in… Victor Hugo · shelf 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 16I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven 17Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi 18History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · shelf 19All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · shelf 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 21Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · shelf 22Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 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 28Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 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 30The journey of a thousand li commences with a single step. Laozi · shelf 31A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · shelf

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