If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

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It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.

~Henry David Thoreau~

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness.
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another.
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Tales of a Wayside Inn"

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What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead?
No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled.
Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread
To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.

Joyce Kilmer "The Peacemaker"

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Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

Olin Miller

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"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.

Do not believe in anything simply on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.

But after observation and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason

and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all,
then accept it and live up to it."

~ Buddha ~

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