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Esperantist Inspirational Quotes (1358)

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My aim is to institute perpetual adoration, spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said that this is the most important activity, and if half of the Brothers would work, and the other half pray, this would not require too much.
Maximilian Kolbe
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As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.
Lu Xun
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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement art is great matter.
Leo Tolstoy
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My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.
Ba Jin
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
Jules Verne
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It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.
Leo Tolstoy
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A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.
Jules Verne
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You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
Leo Tolstoy
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Civilization never recedes the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
Jules Verne
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Many people have ideas on how others should change few people have ideas on how they should change.
Leo Tolstoy
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All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.
Leo Tolstoy
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The wisest man may be a blind father.
Jules Verne
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In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.
Leo Tolstoy
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Fate gives you the finger and you accept.
William Shatner
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The problem of an atomic war must not be confused by minor problems such as Communism versus capitalism. An atomic war would kill everyone, left, right, or center.
Linus Pauling
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Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.
James Connolly
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It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.
Leo Tolstoy
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We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.
Henri Barbusse
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I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand
Leo Tolstoy
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
Leo Tolstoy
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We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?
Leo Tolstoy
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I think you die the way you live.
William Shatner
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You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.
Daniel Tammet
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In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.
Wilhelm Ostwald
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