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Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#inspirational

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#friendship #inspirational #friendship

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #lecture #nonfiction #philosophy #self-reliance

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#babies #best #bringing #children #come

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#inspiration #liberty #political-philosophy #strength #tyranny

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first. ↗

— Derek Landy

#anything-is-possible #apple #everything-is-possible #gravity #inevitability

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#creativity #inspiration #sociology #writing #art

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. ↗

— Michael Palin

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I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own. ↗

— Michael Palin

#art #country #cultures #drama #genuinely