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An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind. ↗

— A.T. Baron

#imagination #inspirational #thought-provoking #imagination

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#bring #closing #comfort #conversely #door

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#choices #expressed #make #makes #our

Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined. ↗

— Mohamed Zahy Hussain

#defusing #examples #inspirational #life #moral

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights. ↗

— Elihu Root

#dangerous #differences #incitement #more #most

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions—there we have none. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #reading #freedom

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ↗

— Emory Austin

#inspirational #music #inspirational

If you're going through hell, keep going. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#going #hell #keep #keep going #through

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#handsome #inspired #large #little #long

Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, 'Sinite parvulos,' he made no distinction between the little children. It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags as in fleurs de lys. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#inspirational #inspirational