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Retro Quote – Albert Einstein
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Retro Quote – Eleanor Roosevelt
“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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Retro Quote – Niels Bohr
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Retro Quote – Marilyn vos Savant
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”
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Retro Quote – John Kenneth Galbraith
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is, the search for a moral justification for selfishness.”
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Retro Quote – Hugo Black
“Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.”
– U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
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Retro Quote – Rainer Maria Rilke
“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”
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Retro Quote – Augusto Cury
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Retro Quote – Marian Anderson
“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.”
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Retro Quote – Isaiah Berlin
“If we are to hope to understand the often violent world in which we live, we cannot confine our attention to the great impersonal forces, natural and man-made, which act upon us. The goals and motives that guide human action must be looked at in the light of all that we know and understand; their roots and growth, their essence, and above all their validity, must be critically examined with every intellectual resource that we have.”
– Isaiah Berlin, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, 1991
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