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The year 2033

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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 2Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · 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 5Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr. · shelf 6You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11Love 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 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 14What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · 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 18I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 19If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison · shelf 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 21I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · shelf 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 23What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 24If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · 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 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

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 3Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · 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 6I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke · shelf 9Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · shelf 10Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi · 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 13He seems to me equal to the gods, that man who sits facing you and listens close to your sweet speaking. Sappho · shelf 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei 16Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · shelf 17Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · 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 19Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · shelf 20Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of reco… William Shakespeare · 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 24The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates · shelf 25The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · shelf 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 29To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf

March

1Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 2The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla · shelf 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 4With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln 5Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 6I am still learning. Michelangelo 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 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 11I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf 12The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain · shelf 13If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain · shelf 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire · 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 way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells · 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 22We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 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 26Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost 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 30Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe · shelf 31Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz

April

1Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · 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 6Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · shelf 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 8We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · 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 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 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.17One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir · shelf 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 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 22Dare to know. Immanuel Kant 23To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare 24The die is cast. Julius Caesar · shelf 25I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · 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 28I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes · shelf 29The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 30Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov · shelf

May

1From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 2If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · 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 8Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius · shelf 9We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf 10Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · 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 14It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens · shelf 15Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson · shelf 16Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 17We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · shelf 18Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne · 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 21Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle · shelf 24The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes · shelf 27Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 28I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · shelf 29Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 30The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot · shelf 2What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 3This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · 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 5Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · shelf 6I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 7Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come; and when death is come, we are not. Epicurus · shelf 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 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 11So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · 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 14Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor… Benjamin Franklin · shelf 15Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 16History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 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 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 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 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 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 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26If 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 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 30I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · shelf

July

1The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in… Victor Hugo · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston · shelf 4Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams 5Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson · shelf 6History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · shelf 7All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · shelf 8As 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 9Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · shelf 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 11Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 12The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 14We 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 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 17I 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 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 19A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · 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 22A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 23With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 24That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · 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 27It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · shelf 28Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr. · shelf 29You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X · shelf 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · 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 6What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · shelf 7I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 8Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 9To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 10I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 11If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison · shelf 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 16If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 17Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 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 23I 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 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 25The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · shelf 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 28Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 29I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi · shelf 3We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan · shelf 4It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · shelf 5He seems to me equal to the gods, that man who sits facing you and listens close to your sweet speaking. Sappho · shelf 6Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · shelf 7It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Seneca · shelf 8Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare · shelf 11Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · 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 13Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 16The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates · shelf 17The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · shelf 18Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson 19We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · shelf 20Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck · shelf 21To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla · 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 27The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29For the love of money is the root of all evil. Paul the Apostle · shelf 30Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel

October

1I 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 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 3The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain · shelf 4If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain · 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 7Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire · shelf 8It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington · shelf 9Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington · shelf 10The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells · shelf 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · shelf 13We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde · 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 17The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 18I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 19The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats · shelf 20I accuse. Émile Zola · shelf 21We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22Facts are stubborn things. John Adams · shelf 23Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · shelf 24There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou · 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 28Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · shelf 29That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · 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

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 4The 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 5Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 6Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin · shelf 7We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie 8One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir · 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 14You too, child? Julius Caesar · shelf 15The die is cast. Julius Caesar · shelf 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · shelf 18In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · shelf 19That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln 20The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · 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 23If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · shelf 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 26Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · shelf 27The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · 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 29Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius · shelf 30The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain

December

1The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks 2Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf 3I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 4You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke 5We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion 6Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson · 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 9Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne · 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 12Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 13If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 14When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle · shelf 15The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois · 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 18Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 19I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · shelf 20Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein · shelf 21The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · shelf 22You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 26Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson · shelf 27Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · shelf 28Of things, some are in our power, and others are not. Epictetus · shelf 29Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come; and when death is come, we are not. Epicurus · shelf 30The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · shelf 31The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt · shelf

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