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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. [quoted in Newsweek, September 22, 1986] Diane Ackerman, poet

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. Anon

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness. Susan Faludi, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

'Umuatu ngumuntu naga antu' A person is a person because of other people. Zulu saying

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land amongst the stars. Les Brown

You see things and say 'Why'? But I see things and say 'Why not?' G.B Shaw

Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau, Social Philosopher

To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts. David Bohm, Physicist

As your island of knowledge grows, so does your shoreline of wonder. Anon

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? Frank Scully

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark T

Most advances in science comes from when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. Peter Burdon

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him. Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity. G.B. Shaw

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. Maya Angelou, African American poet

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Johanne von Goethe

Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together. Johanne von Goethe

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

The principal cause of war is war itself. C. Wright Mills, Sociologist