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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Born:
Nov 11
,
1922
Died:
Apr 11
,
2007
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Respect
Trust
Hate
World
Fear
Community
Ours
Dreadful
Must
Mutual
Mutual Trust
Instead
Becoming
Proud
Confederation
Avoid
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold
Brainy
Frame
Our
Destiny
Ours
Put
Permitted
Choose
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt
Good
Citizen
First
Own
Ours
Willing
Able
Shall
Weight
He
His
Republic
Requisite
Good Citizen
Pull
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
Sitting Bull
Environmental
Mother
Own
Earth
Claim
Neighbors
Ours
Buildings
Fence
Refuse
Use
Away
Her
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Harry S Truman
Work
Peace
Understanding
Sit
Differences
Down
Other
Our
Ours
Out
Ability
Gives
He
Fellow
Understand
Understands
Work Out
Then
Us
Viewpoint
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Thomas Jefferson
Army
Important
Nation
Ours
Armed
Disciplined
None
Times
Standing
Dispense
Therefore
Keep
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami Vivekananda
Eyes
Dark
Before
Universe
Our
Ours
Put
Cry
Powers
Hands
Who
Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.
Paul Harvey
Government
Day
Every Day
Too Much
Weed
Every
Flower
Too
Back
Ours
Seed
Like
Becomes
Did
Goes
Gets
Cut
Much
Asparagus
Away
Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.
James E. Faust
Happiness
Work
Forgiveness
Time
Peace
Waiting
Delay
Before
Pain
Ours
Find
Could
Through
Most
Causes
Loss
Repent
Forfeit
Forgive
Them
Us
Manner
Reasons
Need
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts
Love
You
Love Is
Ours
Pretend
Never
Feel
Command
Which
Actually
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