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"Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears.  It seems to absolve us." - Van Wyck Brooks ...

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ― Charles Dickens ...

"We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our ...

"The past is never dead. It isn't even past." - William Faulkner ...

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill ...

"A smile is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge ...

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt ...

“…tragedy has been, and will always be with us. Somewhere right now, evil people are planning evil things. All of us will do everything meaningful; everything we can do to prevent it, but each horrible act can't become an ax ...

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." - Old Greek proverb ...