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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impo

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. – Louis D. Brandeis

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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. – David McCullough

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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. – Alfred North Whitehead

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It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. – Thomas Friedman

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History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, Three Lectures

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I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. – Henry Rollins

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Perhaps only his sense of humor and irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation in the world speaking of his aggression as it drops thousands of bombs on a poor weak nation more than eight thousand miles away from its shores. – Martin Luther King,Jr., about Ho Chi Minh, Beyond Vietnam lecture, 4 April 1968

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What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold. – Tommy Lee Jones

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Get rid of the old leaven of sin so that you may be a new batch of dough — as you really are. – Bible, ICorinthians 5:7

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