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• However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.

  Cressida Cowell

  Beautiful, Dream, Believe

  "How To Train Your Dragon: How To Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2017.

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• Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Beautiful, World, Scar

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• We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.

  Mary Pipher

  Beautiful, Team, People

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• The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other people. We both stretch one hand to receive from Life - and Life is generous indeed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Hands, People

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• What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

  Robert E. Lee

  Beautiful, Peace, War

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.206, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Because one thing God gave us- and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.

  Mitch Albom

  Beautiful, Believe, World

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• And whatever your labors and aspirations,
  in the noisy confusion of life,
  keep peace in your soul.
  With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

  Max Ehrmann

  Beautiful, Dream, Broken

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Being Strong, Believe

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Sky, Done

  Charles Dickens (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.42, Top Five Books LLC

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• I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Looks, World

  "The interview: David Lynch" by Gaby Wood and Hazel Sheffield, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Travel, Adventure, Moon

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2014). “She: A Celebration of Greatness in Every Woman”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

  Johan Huizinga

  Depression, Beautiful, Confusing

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• It is only in exceptional moods that we realize how wonderful are the commonest experiences of life. It seems to me sometimes that these experiences have an "inner" side, as well as the outer side we normally perceive. At such moments one suddenly sees everything with new eyes; one feels on the brink of some great revelation. It is as if we caught a glimpse of some incredibly beautiful world that lies silently about us all the time.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Life, Beautiful, Lying

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• Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite. . . . There is something within him which urges him to rise above himself, to control his environment, to master the body and all things physical and live in a higher and more beautiful world.

  David O. McKay

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Men

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• Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Kindness, Animal

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• One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said, 'let's not do these things anymore - let's have fun.'

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Fun, Attitude

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.131, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.

  Colin Meloy

  Beautiful, Children, Pain

  "Wildwood". Book by Colin Meloy, August 30, 2011.

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• For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Art, Real

  Interview with Vendela Vida, www.believermag.com. September, 2013.

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• Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Doe, World

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.20, American Foundation for the Blind

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• There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

  Pete Seeger

  Music, Beautiful, Selfishness

  "The Pete Seeger Reader".

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• Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

  Gary Snyder

  Beautiful, Grandmother, Men

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• Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach 'back to nature' or 'forward to a world of love and beauty'; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell - that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.

  Karl Popper

  Beautiful, Dream, Attitude

  Karl Raimund Popper (1950). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”

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• Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. . . . . Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

  Max Ehrmann

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  "Desiderata" (1927).

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• Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations.

  Karl Popper

  Beautiful, Dream, Men

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.485, Routledge

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• We're at 103,000 feet. Looking out over a very beautiful, beautiful world . . . a hostile sky. As you look up the sky looks beautiful but hostile. As you sit here you realize that Man will never conquer space. He will learn to live with it, but he will never conquer it. Can see for over 400 miles. Beneath me I can see the clouds. . . . They are beautiful . . . looking through my mirror the sky is absolutely black. Void of anything. . . . I can see the beautiful blue of the sky and above that it goes into a deep, deep, dark, indescribable blue which no artist can ever duplicate. It's fantastic.

  Joseph Kittinger

  Beautiful, Dark, Men

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