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The year 2091

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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 2Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 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 5Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · shelf 6You cannot step twice into the same river. Heraclitus · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles, and its devastation. Homer · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · 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 14I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston · 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 18All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · shelf 19As 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 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 21Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats · shelf 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 23Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller · shelf 24Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26I 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 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 31We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin · shelf

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 3With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · 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 6Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · shelf 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr. · shelf 9You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X · shelf 10It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · shelf 11I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath 12A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln 13I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · shelf 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei 16It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 17What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · 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 19Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 20To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · 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 24I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · shelf 25If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · 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 29Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf

March

1Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell · shelf 2The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid · shelf 3These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine · shelf 4With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln 5I 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 6I am still learning. Michelangelo 7The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · shelf 8Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 9And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Paul the Apostle · shelf 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 11I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 12Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. The Qur’an · shelf 13You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke · shelf 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan · 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 19Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · 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 22Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 24Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · shelf 25Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of reco… William Shakespeare · 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 27If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 28We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 29The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates · shelf 30The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · shelf 31Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne

April

1We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 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 6I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 8Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau · 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 11For the love of money is the root of all evil. Paul the Apostle · shelf 12All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf 13I 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 14I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · 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.17Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · shelf 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 21Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington · shelf 22Dare to know. Immanuel Kant 23To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare 24Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · shelf 25We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde · 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 28A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf · shelf 29The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 30I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf

May

1The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats · shelf 2I accuse. Émile Zola · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4Facts are stubborn things. John Adams · 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 8Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 9Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · shelf 10Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · 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 14In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 15Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 16It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen · shelf 17The 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 18Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · 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 21One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · shelf 24To 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 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke · shelf 27You too, child? Julius Caesar · shelf 28The die is cast. Julius Caesar · 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 30One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes · shelf 2The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 3Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov · 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 5If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · shelf 6I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 7I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 9The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · shelf 10Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? Confucius · shelf 11Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius · 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 14Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf 15I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 16History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 17It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens · 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 20We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion · shelf 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 22Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. John Donne · shelf 23Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky · shelf 24Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle · 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 30Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf

July

1I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · shelf 4Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams 5April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot · shelf 6What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 7This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · shelf 8Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson · shelf 9Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · shelf 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 11Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come; and when death is come, we are not. Epicurus · shelf 12The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 14The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman · 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 17Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 19Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · 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 22And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei · shelf 23Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 24You 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 25Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 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 world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway · shelf 28Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · shelf 29You cannot step twice into the same river. Heraclitus · shelf 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles, and its devastation. Homer · 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 6I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston · shelf 7We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · shelf 8Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson · shelf 9History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · shelf 10All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · shelf 11As 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 12Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · shelf 13Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats · shelf 14Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 15Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller · shelf 16Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · shelf 17We 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 18I 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 19Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 20I 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 21The journey of a thousand li commences with a single step. Laozi · shelf 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker 23We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin · 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 25A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 26With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 27That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · 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.29Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · shelf 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr. · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · shelf 3The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 4A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. Karl Marx · shelf 5I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · shelf 6Love 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 7Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville · shelf 8It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 11Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · 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 13I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 16I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · shelf 17If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · shelf 18Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson 19If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 20Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 21Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid · 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 only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 30Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel

October

1Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz · shelf 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 3Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. The Qur’an · shelf 4You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke · 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 7We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan · shelf 8It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · shelf 9He seems to me equal to the gods, that man who sits facing you and listens close to your sweet speaking. Sappho · shelf 10Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · shelf 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · shelf 13Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · 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 17Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 18If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 19We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 20The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates · shelf 21We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Susan Sontag · shelf 23We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · shelf 24Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck · 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 28I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 29The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau · 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

1Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Thucydides · shelf 2For the love of money is the root of all evil. Paul the Apostle · shelf 3All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf 4I 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 5I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf 6The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain · shelf 7We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie 8Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · 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 14Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman · shelf 15Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · shelf 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde · shelf 18I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft · shelf 19That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln 20The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · 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 accuse. Émile Zola · shelf 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25Facts are stubborn things. John Adams · shelf 26Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · shelf 27There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou · 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 29Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · 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 2That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · shelf 3We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · shelf 4You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke 5We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion 6Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · 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 9Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · 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 12One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir · shelf 13I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven · shelf 14If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · shelf 15To 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 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 18You too, child? Julius Caesar · shelf 19The die is cast. Julius Caesar · shelf 20I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · shelf 21One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus · shelf 22In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 26From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 27If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · shelf 28We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill · shelf 29I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 30Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · shelf 31The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · shelf

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