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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 2I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde · 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 5The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 6I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8I accuse. Émile Zola · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · 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 14Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 15I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr.16Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Susan Sontag 17Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin 18We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · shelf 19Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 21Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 23The 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 24Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · 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 31Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river. Jorge Luis Borges · shelf

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 3The die is cast. Julius Caesar · 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 6In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · shelf 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 9Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov · shelf 10From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · 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 13I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony 16Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? Confucius · shelf 17Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius · shelf 18I am still learning. Michelangelo 19Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 20Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · 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 24Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson · shelf 25Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · 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 29Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky · shelf

March

1Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · shelf 2If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 3When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle · shelf 4The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt 5How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning · shelf 6How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 7Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 8I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · shelf 9Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein · shelf 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt · shelf 12April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot · shelf 13What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · 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 past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · 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 22So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 24Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 25Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor… Benjamin Franklin · 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 27The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud · shelf 28Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost · shelf 29And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei · shelf 30Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 31Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne

April

1Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 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 6If 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 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 8Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace · 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 11The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in… Victor Hugo · shelf 12A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf 13I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston · shelf 14We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · 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.17All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · shelf 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 21Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · 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 24We 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 25I 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 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 28The journey of a thousand li commences with a single step. Laozi · shelf 29A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · shelf 30We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin · shelf

May

1He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · shelf 2A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · 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 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 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 14Love 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 15Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville · shelf 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 18I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 19You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X 20Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill 21I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 24I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 27If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 28Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · 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 30Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine · shelf 2Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker · shelf 3I 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 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 heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · shelf 6The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower 7And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Paul the Apostle · shelf 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 9I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 10Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. The Qur’an · shelf 11You must change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke · 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 14We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan · shelf 15It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · shelf 16A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln 17Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · 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 20Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · shelf 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 22Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · shelf 23Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of reco… William Shakespeare · shelf 24Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · 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 30We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · shelf

July

1Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 4We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson 5I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 6The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 7Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 8The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · shelf 9Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Thucydides · shelf 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 11All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf 12I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 14The report of my death was an exaggeration. Mark Twain · 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 17There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil · shelf 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 19It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington · 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 22Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman · shelf 23Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · shelf 24We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde · shelf 25I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde · 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 27A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf · shelf 28The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 29I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31I accuse. Émile Zola · 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 6Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 7Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · shelf 8Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · shelf 9That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · shelf 10We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · shelf 11Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf 12In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 13Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 14It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen · shelf 15The 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 16Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 17Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin · shelf 18Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf 19One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir · shelf 20I will seize fate by the throat. It shall not wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven · shelf 21If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · shelf 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker 23Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river. Jorge Luis Borges · 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 25You too, child? Julius Caesar · shelf 26The die is cast. Julius Caesar · shelf 27I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · 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.29In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · shelf 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 3If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Shirley Chisholm · 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 · shelf 5I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill · shelf 6Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · shelf 7The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · shelf 8Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? Confucius · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie · shelf 11Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · 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 think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens · shelf 16Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never sto… Emily Dickinson · shelf 17Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 18Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 19Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne · shelf 20Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. John Donne · shelf 21Above all, don’t lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky · shelf 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · 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 27To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · shelf 30Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi

October

1The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · shelf 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 3April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot · shelf 4What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · 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 7Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · shelf 8Of things, some are in our power, and others are not. Epictetus · shelf 9Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come; and when death is come, we are not. Epicurus · shelf 10The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · shelf 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman · shelf 13So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · 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 17Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 18The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud · shelf 19Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost · shelf 20And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei · shelf 21We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22You 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 23Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · shelf 24I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale · 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 28If 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 29Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles, and its devastation. Homer · 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

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · shelf 2The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in… Victor Hugo · shelf 3A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf 4I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston · shelf 5We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · shelf 6Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson · shelf 7In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus 8All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · 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 14Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · shelf 15We 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 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 18I 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 19We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 20A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · 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 23A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 26Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · shelf 27Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · 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 29Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr. · 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 2The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx · shelf 3A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. Karl Marx · 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 6Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville · 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 am still learning. Michelangelo · 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.12I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 13If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison · shelf 14I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 15I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · 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 we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 19Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 20Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 21Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell · shelf 22The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 26The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 27The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · shelf 28Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 29And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Paul the Apostle · shelf 30Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz · shelf 31I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf

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