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• I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Death, Journey, Thinking

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• For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Memories, Twilight

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• When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Deeds, Want

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

  George Washington

  Summer, Marijuana, Hemp

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• Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have. We can however give some, and millions of people do, governments do, but there is so much more to be done.

  Roger Moore

  Giving Up, Keys, Government

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• Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

  Maxim Gorky

  Kindness, Love You, Be Kind

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• Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Children, Men, Poverty

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.15, Penguin

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• At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Aging, Falcon, Stills

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• If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

  Anne Frank

  Success, Personality, World

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.137, GENERAL PRESS

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• If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Brother, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

  Maria Montessori

  Independent, Intelligent, Years

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• We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

  Plutarch

  Tradition, Sensible, Customs

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• ...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation.

  Cesar Chavez

  Motivation, Commitment, Thinking

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• We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism. We have seen the history and development of unions in this country and we tell the growers that we want nothing more, but that we want our own union and we are going to fight for it as long as it takes.

  Cesar Chavez

  Country, Fighting, Ideas

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• The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get something done, as we've done here in the strike and the boycott, then they continue to suffer - and maybe a little bit more - but the suffering becomes less important because they see a chance of progress; sometimes progress itself. They've been suffering all their live.s It's a question of suffering with some kind of hope now. That's better than suffering with no hope at all.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Suffering, Progress

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• I think egg boiling is the hardest thing I've ever done, but I can make a tiramisu anytime you want.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Funny, Thinking, Eggs

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• Boxing's all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds.

  Frank Bruno

  Funny, Jobs, Stupid

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• Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Sake, Accusation

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2334, Delphi Classics

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• Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  History, Historian, Relate

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.278, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on fair play wherever we have the power to do so. The rest is in the hands of the Lord, or nature, which swings, apparently, from one extreme to another.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Fighting, Swings, Hands

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• A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.

  James Boswell

  Sarcastic, Dog, Legs

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

  Florence Nightingale

  Smart, Excellence, Littles

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• We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Two, Liberty

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

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• It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

  Malcolm X

  Dying, Violence, Belief

  1965 The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

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