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| Quote for category - ideals |
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The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
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I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
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However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.
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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
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Our ideals resemble the stars, which illuminate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the
sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,
like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell
your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up
to us. It is up to you.
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The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to
sustain a people in grave times.
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Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the
meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal
element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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