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# Favorite Quotes data
## Intention: To display a random ticker of some of my favorite quotes.
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quote: So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
author: Nelson Mandela
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quote: The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
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quote: "'What is Right?', not 'Who is Right?'"
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quote: Talk is cheap.
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quote: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
author: Lao-Tzu
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quote: Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
author: Frederick Douglass
date: August 4, 1857
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quote: There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
author: C.S. Lewis
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quote: |
It took thousands of years of human civilisation before we got relatively benign governments. Power structures are not inherently benign; they must constantly be pressured to prevent malignant people using them to leverage their actions.
A non-authoritarian government is an historical anomaly. It's a ball balanced on top of a hill, pushed there by the deaths of millions, and kept there by the vigilance of those who care.
Please start caring.
author: barrkel
author_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=barrkel
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quote: Hope is fuel, it moves us forward and it amplifies our best work.
author: Seth Godin
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quote: The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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quote: "I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
author: Horace Mann
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quote: Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
author: Theodore Roosevelt
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quote: Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
author: Muhammed Ali
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quote: "Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all."
author: Michael Rivero
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quote: Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
author: Martin Luther King Jr.
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quote: What we’re really doing is giving people an opportunity to have a voice in government.
author: Rohan Dixit
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quote: I like voting, I like the process and the idea of voting.... I just don't like the people that we have to vote for.
author: Aneeqa Muzammil
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quote: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
author: Margaret Mead
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quote: Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor of maintaining it.
author: Norman Mailer
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quote: It is well known at this point that politics has become a team sport... the whole spectacle of it seems to be aimed at distracting us from the real issues we are facing as a country.
author: Glenn Beck
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quote: When did “your team is worse than mine” become the prevailing motive in our country for engaging in the democratic process?
author: Glenn Beck
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quote: If we want a better politics, it’s not enough to just change a Congressman or a Senator or even a President; we have to change the system.
author: Barack Obama
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quote: It also seems that the counterproductive incentive structures built into institutions like Congress, and the variable quality of the laws that it passes, are the most problematic component of our existing governmental structures.
author: Ralph Merkle