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Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he

Inventive man has invented nothing — nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds. – Dorothy Thompson

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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. – Dorothy Thompson

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Peace
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The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. – Dorothy Thompson

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Faith
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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. – Aesop

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When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. – John Burroughs

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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. – Henry David Thoreau

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Autumn birds speak cheerful poetry from their berry-stained beaks. – Terri Guillemets

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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete. – Vaclav Havel

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