quotes Flashcards

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Ghandi

20th century nonviolent leader of Indian independence movement

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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

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Albert Einstein

20th century Germany physicist

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“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

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Mark Twain, 19th century American Author

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The two most important days of your life are the day you were born, and the day you found out why

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Martin Luther King Jr, 20th century civil rights activist

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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Oscar Wilde; 19th century Irish satirist, Victorian playwright and poet

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple

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Benjamin Franklin, 18th century founding father, inventor

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When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

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Winston Churchill, 20th century British Prime Minister, WWII

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History is written by the victors

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George Orwell, 20th century British dystopian author, Animal Farm

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In a time of universal deceit-telling the truth is a revolutionary act

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Friedrich Nietzsche, 19th century German Philosopher

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That which does not kill us makes us stronger

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Jackie Robinson, First black major league baseball player, number 42 is retired across all MLB

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I am not concerned with your liking or disliking of me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being

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Socrates, classical Greek philosopher

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True knowledge exists in knowing you know nothing

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Hellen Keller, 20th century humanitarian, advocate for blind an deaf.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it

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Steve Jobs, 20/21st century inventor, founder of Apple

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Think Different

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Ralph Waldo Emmerson. 19th century, leader of Transcendental movement

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

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Ernest Hemingway, 20th century American novelist

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All things truly wicked start from innocence

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Malala Yousufzai, youngest winner of NPP, Pakistani feminist

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“Let us remember, one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world”

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Pablo Picasso, 20th century Spanish artist, Cubist movement

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“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls”

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Nelson Mandela, First south African president

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“It always seems impossible until it is done”

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Robert Burns, 18th century romantic poet

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“The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray”

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Maya Angelou, 20th century African American Poet & civil rights movement leader

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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

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Virginia Woolf, 20th century author, feminist and modernist

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“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman”

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Eleonor Roosevelt, longest serving first lady of the United States

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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”

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Henry David Thoreau, 19th century transcendentalist, Civil Disobedience

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“Things do not change, we change”

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Voltaire, 18th century French enlightenment author

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“I do not agree with what you have to say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it”

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Johnathan Swift, 18th century irish satirical essayist

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“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally everybody’s face but their own”