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“Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.”

Source: Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]

“We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear that keeps you chained to your desk, staring at your screen, does not serve your spirit. Lunch is a time to forget about being sensible, practical, efficient. A proper lunch should be spiritually as well as physically nourishing. Cosy, convivial, a treat; lunch is for loafers.”

Needs Should Wells Doe Has Beens Spirit Natural Forget Treats Claims Screens Practicals Staring Lunch Sensible Efficient Rulers Desks Stolen Chained Cosy Loafers

Book:How to be Idle

Source: How to be Idle

“Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.”

Men Forget Eternal Eternity Claims Salvation West Notion Graves Stakes Vague Eternal Life

Author:Andre Malraux

“No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.”

Men World Should Looks Matter Justice Forget Atheism Claims Fellows Slave Positive Atheism Titles Capture Fellow Man Pits

Author:Zeno of Citium

“Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.”

Ifs Art Sometimes Past Energy Loses Forget Art Is Claims Museums Circuits Past Present Past Present And Future New Work Working Now

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons.”

Easy Difficult Forget Calling Weapons Claims Forgiving Lays Injustice Revenge Courageous

Author:Dillon Burroughs

“You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not. And Vernon Jordan was shot. The thing that revolutionaries, or even people who want to claim they're revolutionaries, often forget is that it doesn't make no difference what kind of wardrobe you wear, and if you speak up about Black people doing better you just risked your life.”

People Ifs Want Kind Speak Black Differences Forget Kings Shots Claims Revolutionary Black People Luther Newton Wardrobe Jordan

Author:Gil Scott-Heron

“Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Children Force Forget Principles Issues Changed Claims Parenting Motherhood Addresses Forget It Raising Children Being A Mother Humbling Humbling Experiences

Author:Diane Keaton

“Let's not forget that for thousands of years the institution of marriage has been between a man and a woman. Until quite recently, in a limited number of countries, there has been no such thing as a marriage between persons of the same gender. Suddenly we are faced with the claim that thousands of years of human experience should be set aside because we should not discriminate in relation to the institution of marriage. When that claim is made, the burden of proving that this step will not undo the wisdom and stability of millennia of experience lies on those who would make the change.”

Men Should Years Humans Persons Has Beens Made Country Lying Forget Numbers Steps Prove Claims Relation Institutions Burden Gender Stability Human Experience

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.”

Ifs Thinking Remember Forget Mercy Claims Debt

Book:John Donne: The Major Works

Source: John Donne: The Major Works

“We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.”

Thinking Men Giving Important Ability Forget Modern Position Expression Victory Battle Speech Claims Freedom Of Speech Interfere Restraint Modern Man

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom