I have a feeling that childhood has been robbed of a great deal of its joys by taking away its belief in wonderful, mystic things, in fairies and all their kin. It is not surprising that when children are grown, they have so little idealism or imagination.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

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"No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him."
- Ludwig van Beethoven

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength. Cesar Chavez

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. 

Charles de Lint

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I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.  -Napoleon

No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.
- J.S. Bell

Cindy

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. === Margaret Thatcher ====

"The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously." --George W. Bush, New Albany, Ind., Nov. 13, 2007

Well, duh!  Now if he would just act like he really believed that......

Beverly

I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have. Cesar Chavez

The past is never dead; it is not even past.

William Faulkner

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Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.  cesar chavez

Things only have the value that we give them.  Molière

Some people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde.

LLL&R

Maebh

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.  -Confucius

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

William Faulkner

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"It takes 46 muscles to frown but only 4 to flip 'em the bird."
- Robin Williams

"Without justice, courage is weak."   Benjamin Franklin

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato

Beverly

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. Eleanor Roosevelt