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The year 2036

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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 2Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington · 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 5Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · shelf 6We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · 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 14Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe · 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 still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank · shelf 19Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 21Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · shelf 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 23We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · shelf 24Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · 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 31Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 3If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · 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 6When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke · shelf 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8The die is cast. Julius Caesar · shelf 9I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · shelf 10One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · 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 lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony 16If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · shelf 17We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill · shelf 18I am still learning. Michelangelo 19Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · shelf 20The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · 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 24Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 25Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · 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 29Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson · shelf

March

1Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 2We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · shelf 3Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne · shelf 4The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt 5Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky · shelf 6How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 7If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 8When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle · shelf 9The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois · shelf 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 11To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes · shelf 12Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 13I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · shelf 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt · 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 19This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · 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 22Of things, some are in our power, and others are not. Epictetus · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 24The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · shelf 25The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt · 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 27So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · shelf 28Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl · shelf 29Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 30Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor… Benjamin Franklin · shelf 31Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz

April

1The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud · 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 6Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · shelf 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 8The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway · 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 11If 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 12Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles, and its devastation. Homer · shelf 13Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace · shelf 14What happens to a dream deferred? Langston Hughes · 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.17A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 21History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · 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 24Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · shelf 25Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats · 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 28Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · shelf 29We 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 30I 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

May

1Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 2I 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 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · 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 8With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 9That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 10Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · 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 14You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X · shelf 15It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · shelf 16The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 17A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. Karl Marx · shelf 18I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · shelf 19You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X 20Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill 21It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 24Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 27If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison · shelf 28I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 29Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 30If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 2Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 3Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · 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 5The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid · shelf 6The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower 7Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker · shelf 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 9The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 10The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · shelf 11Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 12I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank 13I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats 14I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 15Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. The Qur’an · shelf 16A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln 17Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 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 only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · shelf 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 22Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · shelf 23It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Seneca · shelf 24Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · shelf 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare · 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 30If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf

July

1We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · shelf 4We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson 5We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · shelf 6Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck · shelf 7To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf 8Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 9The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla · shelf 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 11The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 12I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 14Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Thucydides · 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 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 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 19The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain · 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 22There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil · shelf 23Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire · shelf 24It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington · shelf 25Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington · 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 27Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman · shelf 28Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · shelf 29We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde · shelf 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · 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 6Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe · shelf 7Facts are stubborn things. John Adams · shelf 8Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · shelf 9There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou · shelf 10I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank · shelf 11Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 12Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · shelf 13Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · shelf 14That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · shelf 15We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · shelf 16Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf 17In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 18Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 19It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen · shelf 20The 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 21Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker 23Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · 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 will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven · shelf 26If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · shelf 27To 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 28Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 29When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke · shelf 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31The die is cast. Julius Caesar · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · shelf 3In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · shelf 4I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes · shelf 5The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 6Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov · shelf 7From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 8If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 11Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · 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 13Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? Confucius · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf 16Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 17Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf 18Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 19Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love. This is an old rule. The Dhammapada · shelf 20It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens · shelf 21Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson · shelf 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · 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 27Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle · shelf 30Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi

October

1How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning · shelf 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 3Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 4I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · 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 7You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt · shelf 8April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot · shelf 9What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 10This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · shelf 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · shelf 13Of things, some are in our power, and others are not. Epictetus · 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 17The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman · shelf 18So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · shelf 19Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl · shelf 20Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 21We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 23The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud · shelf 24Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost · 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 28Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · shelf 29I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale · 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

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 4Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace · shelf 5What happens to a dream deferred? Langston Hughes · shelf 6I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · shelf 7In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus 8A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · 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 14As 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 15Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · shelf 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 18Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller · shelf 19We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 20We 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 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 23I 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 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · shelf 26We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin · shelf 27He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · 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 29With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 30The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain

December

1The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks 2Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · 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 6It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · 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 9I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · shelf 10Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 11Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr.12It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 13What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · shelf 14I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 15Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · 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 18If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison · shelf 19I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 20I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · shelf 21If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · shelf 22What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 26Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell · shelf 27The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid · shelf 28These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine · shelf 29Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker · shelf 30I 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 31The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf

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