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no. 933

 

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no. 931

 "The literature of imagination, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope." 

Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists"

no. 930

 “I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.” 

Patti Smith, born on this day in 1946

no. 929

 War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children. 

 Jimmy Carter, December 2002, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

no. 928

 “I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

- James Baldwin

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no. 925

 “If you want Peace, work for Justice.” 

Pope Saint Paul VI, 1 January 1972

no. 924

 

no. 923

 

Have I posted this before? Don’t care. 

no. 922

 

no. 921

 

no. 920

 "To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness." 

John Muir

no. 919

 “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” 

John Muir, who died on this day in 1914

no. 918

“I don’t rightly know what comes after this life. Heaven, hell, reincarnation, or maybe nothing…but I think we spend too much time wondering what our reward will be in the next life while we let the days of this life slip like so much water through our hands.”

Leland Dirks

no. 917

 “I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.”

Norman Thomas, who died on this day in 1968

no. 916

 “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

no. 915