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  The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility -- Vaclav Havel.

Image: Vaclav Havel

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It's easy to pity, Sidonie, but so much harder to understand. If you understand someone, don't pity them, change them. Only pity what you can’t understand – Petra von Kant.

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Princes succeed one another; and one Judge passeth, another commeth; nay, Heaven and Earth shall passe; but not one title of the Law of Nature shall passe; for it is the Eternall Law of God, Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury, Leviathan, II.26.

Imagem: Pandora – Boris Vallejo

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Police power is an attribute of sovereignty, but sovereignty ultimately rests in “the people of the State of Texas” – Texas’ Supreme Court.

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Wise men say only fools rush in — Elvis Presley.
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Imagem: Dare to Struggle – Douglas Fraser

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Not only the thirsty seek the water,
the water as well seeks the thirsty — Rûmî.

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In every moment this love is more endless,

in every time people are more bewildered in it — ‘Attâr.

Image: Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres

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My people of Africa, we were created in the image of God, but men have made us think that we are chickens, and we still think we are, but we are eagles. Stretch forth your wings and fly! Don't be content with the food of Chickens — J.E. Kwegyir Aggrey

Imagem: Cavalaria de Aníbal Barak em Cannas

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"A practice condemned by the Constitution cannot be saved by historical acceptance and present convenience" – Supreme Court of the United States of America [U.S. v. Woodley].

Image: Andrej Rubljov

 

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Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for. Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for – Woodrow Wilson.

Image: Marc Chagall

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Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that the word insn’t honest even with itself, Herta Müller.

Image: John Keats

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The recent economic meltdown was at root not a failure of character or competence, but a failure of ideas, Robert Skidelsky.

Image: Mark Jenkins — Street Installation, Washington D.C

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How many ignoramuses have slandered us spiritual beings! — Ibn Arabi.

Imagem: Abigail Clancy

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«Spes salvi facti sumus — es en la esperanza que nosostros somos salvos; it’s on hope that we are saved; é na esperança que fomos salvos, São Paulo.

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"My people of Africa, we were created in the image of God, but men have made us think that we are chickens, and we still think we are, but we are eagles. Stretch forth your wings and fly! Don't be content with the food of Chickens" — J.E. Kwegyir Aggrey.

Image: Egyptians chess players — Lawrence Alma-Tadema