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The year 2016

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 2In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · 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 5Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov · shelf 6From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · 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 must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · 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 18Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love. This is an old rule. The Dhammapada · shelf 19It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens · shelf 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 21Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 23Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne · shelf 24Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. John Donne · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · 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 31To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes · shelf

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 3Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein · 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 6April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot · shelf 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · shelf 9Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson · shelf 10Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · 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 past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · shelf 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony 16So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · shelf 17Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl · shelf 18I am still learning. Michelangelo 19Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor… Benjamin Franklin · shelf 20Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · 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 24Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 25You 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 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 29Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · shelf

March

1You cannot step twice into the same river. Heraclitus · shelf 2If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Hillel · shelf 3Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles, and its devastation. Homer · shelf 4The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt 5What happens to a dream deferred? Langston Hughes · shelf 6How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 7The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in… Victor Hugo · shelf 8A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf 9I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston · shelf 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 11Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson · shelf 12History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · shelf 13All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · shelf 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats · 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 19Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · 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 22Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 24The journey of a thousand li commences with a single step. Laozi · shelf 25A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · 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 27He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · shelf 28A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 29With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 30That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 31Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne

April

1Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · 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 6The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 8I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · 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 11It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 12What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · shelf 13I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 14Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · 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 there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison · shelf 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 21What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · 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 24Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell · shelf 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 28Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker · shelf 29I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I c… Theodore Parker · shelf 30The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf

May

1The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · shelf 2Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz · 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 8Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · shelf 9Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi · shelf 10We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan · 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 that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Seneca · shelf 15Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · shelf 16Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · shelf 17To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare · shelf 18Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · 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 21If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates · shelf 24The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · shelf 27Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck · shelf 28To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · 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 30The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 2Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 3The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · 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 5For the love of money is the root of all evil. Paul the Apostle · shelf 6The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower 7I 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 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 9The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain · shelf 10If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain · shelf 11Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · 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 14It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington · shelf 15Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington · shelf 16A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln 17Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman · 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 can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde · shelf 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 22A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf · shelf 23The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 24I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26I accuse. Émile Zola · 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 30There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou · shelf

July

1I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · shelf 4We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson 5That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · shelf 6We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · shelf 7Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf 8In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 9Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 11The 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 12I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 14Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · 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 17If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · shelf 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 19Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river. Jorge Luis Borges · shelf 20That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong 21The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 22The die is cast. Julius Caesar · shelf 23I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · shelf 24One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · shelf 25In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · 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 27The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 28Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov · shelf 29From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill · 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 must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf 7Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 8Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf 9I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 10Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love. This is an old rule. The Dhammapada · shelf 11It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens · shelf 12Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson · shelf 13Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 14We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · shelf 15Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne · shelf 16Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. John Donne · shelf 17Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky · shelf 18Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 19If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 20When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle · shelf 21The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois · shelf 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker 23To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes · 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, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · shelf 26Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein · shelf 27The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · 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.29April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot · shelf 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · shelf 3Of things, some are in our power, and others are not. Epictetus · shelf 4Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come; and when death is come, we are not. Epicurus · shelf 5The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · shelf 6The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt · shelf 7The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman · shelf 8So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 11Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor… Benjamin Franklin · 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 13The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei · shelf 16Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 17You 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 18Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 19I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale · shelf 20The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway · shelf 21Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · shelf 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23If 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 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, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf 30Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi

October

1We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · shelf 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 3History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · shelf 4All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · 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 7Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats · shelf 8Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 9Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller · shelf 10Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · shelf 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12I 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 13Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · 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 17We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin · shelf 18He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · shelf 19A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 20With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 21We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · shelf 23Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · shelf 24It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · 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 28The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 29A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. Karl Marx · 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

1Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville · shelf 2It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 3What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · shelf 4I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 5Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 6To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 7In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus 8If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison · 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 14Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 15Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid · shelf 18These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine · shelf 19We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 20I 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 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 23Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz · shelf 26I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 27Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. The Qur’an · 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 29Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · shelf 30If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm

December

1The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks 2It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · shelf 3He seems to me equal to the gods, that man who sits facing you and listens close to your sweet speaking. Sappho · 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 6Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · 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 9Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · 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.12If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 13We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 14The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates · shelf 15The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 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 18Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck · shelf 19To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf 20Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 21The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla · shelf 22I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 26Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Thucydides · shelf 27For the love of money is the root of all evil. Paul the Apostle · shelf 28All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · 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 · shelf 30I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf 31The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain · shelf

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