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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. George Orwell

Man Situation Virtue Destroy Triumph Him Forces Felt Does Still Exists Tragic Than Precisely Which

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. Gertrude Stein

Over time, I have come to believe that 'brave' does not mean what we think it does. It does not mean 'being afraid and doing it anyway.' Nope. Brave means listening to the still small voice inside and doing as it says. Regardless of what the rest of the world is saying. Glennon Doyle Melton

Saying Time World Listening Rest Believe Think Says Inside Small Voice Small Voice Over Come Does Still Doing Brave Afraid Being Being Afraid Regardless Anyway Mean Means

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Good Angry You Made Whatever Out Indication Frustrated

A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world. Haniel Long

Friendship World Wolf Members Attack Know Another Same Common Energies Pack Use Gang United Bond Desire

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women Introduced Tend Cleanliness Excluded Come She Courtesy Women Are Where Order Places Sobriety Barbarism Moment Downward Her

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. Helen Keller

Sad Me Think About Touch Seldom Never Like Perhaps Make Limitations Yearning Times Just Breeze Among Flowers Vague

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. Helen Keller

You Smell Thousands Potent Wizard Years Across Miles Transports Lived

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. Helen Keller

Teacher Needs Self Blind Blind Person Another Person

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau

World Wealth Books Generations Fit Nations Inheritance Treasured

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. Henry Miller

Destination Looking Way Anchored Rather Never True New Also Always Arriving Departing New Way Place Eternally Things

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. Henry Miller

Great Wise Man Surrender Guidance Own Enough Our Way Destiny Restore Only Lead Any Anyone Which Us Belief

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. Henry Miller

Crazy World Becoming Salvation Which Adapted

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. Henry Miller

Digest Magazines Facts Talk Another Readings Newspapers Theories

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it. Henry Petroski

Change World Change The World Study Were Going Just Engineers Position

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