"Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there."

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“Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.”

“People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.”

“The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.”

“We saw Earth’s breath.”

“When the personal worth of individuals is calculated only in money, sense of self becomes confused with financial net worth.”

“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Everyman is somebody because he is a child of God. And so when we say Thou shalt not kill, we're really saying that human life is too sacred to be taken on the battlefields of the world. Man is more t…"

— Martin Luther King

Social Activism1929–1968

#war

"We must help the Army as if there was no White Paper, and the White Paper as if there was no war."

— David Ben-Gurion

Politics1886–1973

#war

"There’s going to be an i-9/11 event. Which doesn’t necessarily mean an Al Qaeda attack, it means an event where the instability or the insecurity of the internet becomes manifest during a malicious ev…"

— Lawrence Lessig

Politics1961

#justice

"We inherit the warlike type; and for most of the capacities of heroism that the human race is full of we have to thank this cruel history. Dead men tell no tales, and if there were any tribes of other…"

— William James

Psychology1842–1910

#war