"If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito."  - Bette Reese

"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." - Justice Robert H. Jackson

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? - Henry David Thoreau

"There are two stages to the public policy process: too early to tell, and too late to do anything about it." - Anonymous (Cited in Eben Fodor's book Better Not Bigger)

"We are not simply contending in order that my view or that of yours may prevail, but I presume we ought both of us to be fighting for the truth." - Plato

"If you do not change your direction, you are likely to end up where you are headed." - Chinese Proverb

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished." - Confucius

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

"If the biota, in the course of eons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering." - Aldo Leopold (1886-1948), U.S. forester

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." - Bill Vaughan

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca

"Do what you can with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction...The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the darkness...of annihilation." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." - Omar Bradley

"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are." - Carlyle Thomas

"No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor." - Danish Proverb

"Justice is the great work of human beings on earth." - Daniel Webster

"When you've been around as long as I have, you realize that [criticism is] just an opinion." - Clint Eastwood

"If you think you can do a thing or you think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford

"That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees." - Marcus Aurelius

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." - Aldo Leopold (1886-1948), U.S. forester.

"A couple of thousand years ago in Athens, a man could get up in the morning, wander around the city, and inquire into matters affecting his well-being and that of his fellow citizens. No one asked him 'Who are you with?'" - Ralph Nader

"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr.    

"True conservatives should safeguard the resources on which the health, recreation, and economic prosperity of present and future Americans depend. There is nothing conservative, and certainly nothing wise, in squandering our wildlife, wilderness, wetlands, and other natural treasures." - REP America, www.rep.org

"Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life." - Penny Kemp and Derek Wall, British ecologists

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." - Edward Abbey

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller

"If you always do what you always did - you'll always get what you always got." - Anonymous

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What is the eternal and ultimate problem of a free society? It is the problem of the individual who thinks that one man cannot possibly make difference in the destiny of their society...It is the problem of the individual who recognizes no direct relationship between himself and the decisions made by government in his name. Therefore, he feels no special obligation to dig hard for the information necessary to an understanding of the issues leading to those decisions." - Norman Cousins

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." - Thomas Jefferson

"The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done." - Mary Frances Berry

"Study the past if you would divine the future." - Confucius (551-479 BC)

"Politeness costs nothing and gains everything." - Fortune Cookie

"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information." - Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman and Author, 1766-1848

"Good luck is the result of good planning." - Fortune Cookie

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes." - Marcel Proust

"When a man cares he is unafraid. When he is fair he leaves enough for others. When he is humble he can grow." - Lao-Tzu (born approx. 600 B.C.E.)

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"He that plants trees loves others besides himself." - English Proverb

"The worth of a State in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it." - John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"True patriotism is of no party." - Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771)

"Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1754-1821) 

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us". - G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), British author

"I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself." - José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), Spanish essayist, philosopher

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)

"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." (Seize the present day, trusting the morrow as little as you can.) Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace (65-8 BC) 

"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart." - Confucius (551-479 BC)

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

"I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. 
Comes into us at midnight very clean. 
It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. 
It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne's Epitaph

"The most important things in life aren't things." - Art Buchwald 

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