wisdom Quotes
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America is an unlikely place – a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it’s now your turn to help keep it this way.
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For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country’s cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier. - Abraham Lincoln
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
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A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.
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In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.
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To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
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Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.