Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby the tilt of the social landscape.

Eric Hoffer

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.

William Shakespeare

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Jonathan Swift

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

Willy Brandt

If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.

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What keeps me going is goals.

Muhammad Ali

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

Robert Morgan

A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Mark Twain

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

Barbara de Angelis

I came to you a crossbearer on a stretcher and an outcast from humanity, and I went from you a conqueror of life.

Halldór Laxness

It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.

Proverb

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Joseph Conrad