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There is, however, a somber point in the social
outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to
people of white skin...The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me.
- Albert Einstein, 1946 address at Lincoln University
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
The world can only be grasped by action, not
contemplation.
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be
angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the
right purpose, and in the right way that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a
broken winged bird that cannot fly.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is
not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making
to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one
desires to be.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed
can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance is
lighting a fire underneath his own home.
- Harrold Stassen (b. 1907) American politician
So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a
symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is
a reason for all of the pain and all of the struggle. We forget that we were put on earth
to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything
new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us.
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