"It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary."

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"It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary."

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"Morality is contraband in war."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally."

Sam Harris, American Author

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"Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing-or more complicated-than it is today."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

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"The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance."

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"Death wins nothing here,gnawing wings that amputate""then spread, lift up, fly."

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"This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back."

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"A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew."

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"The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion"" cools your fears with peace."

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"Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry."

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"Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives."

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"Now come the whispersbearing bouquets of moonbeamsand sunlight tremblings."

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"The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor."

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"Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves."

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