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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 19-06-2025
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
Henry David Thoreau
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 20-06-2025
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Things do not change; we change.”
Henry David Thoreau
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 21-06-2025
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
Albert Camus
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 22-06-2025
“I'm not a book hoarder. I'm simply prepping for the possibility that one day I might have 173 years to do nothing but read.Better safe than sorry.
Jonathan Edward Durham
“We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, & the number of people who can & do read worthwhile books.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 23-06-2025
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. They only thing they don't know how to handle is non violence & humour.”
John Lennon
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Mark Twain