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• It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
  -- Benjamin E. Mays (1895-1984) U.S. educator, clergyma...
• Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
  -- Benjamin E. Mays (1895-1984) U.S. educator, clergyma...
• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
  -- E. M. Forste...
• All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
  -- Kipling...
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....
• We cannot prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days.
  But so said all before us, and with just as much reason....
• We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
  -- Don Marqui...
• In the process of getting our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
  Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred....