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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton

Some'll rob you with a six gun,
Some with a fountain pen.
- Woody Guthrie

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln

Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank

Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin

These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie