If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. … - E. O. Wilson

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All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

E. O. Wilson

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

Failure, Memorable, Successful, Committed, Alone, Honorable

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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

Character, Atheism, Arise, Arises, Religion

Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.

Confused, Godlike, Real, Stars, Stone, Technology

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

Animal, Care, Creation, Genius, Nature, Pet

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

Like, Poet, Scientist, Thinking, Thinks

Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.

Rest Of Life, People, Giving, Fit, Standard

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Jerry Springer

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A boycott is never an end within itself. It is merely a means to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor but the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption.

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W. C. Fields

I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.

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Romola Garai

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.

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Richelle Mead

I stopped. She was bleeding after all. Perfect lines crossed her wrists, not near any crucial veins, but enough to leave wet red tracks across her skin. She hadn;t hit her veins when she did this; death hadn't been her goal.

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