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Quote for Monday, March 12, 2007
"Nature has made neither sun nor air nor waves private property; they are public gifts." -Ovid
"Nature has made neither sun nor air nor waves private property; they are public gifts." -Ovid
"Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire." -Anatole France
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." -Seneca
"The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space." -Edward Abbey
"Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and to follow it to an end requires courage." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained." -Helen Keller
"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it." -Buckminster Fuller
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." -Voltaire
"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." -Walt Whitman
"There are two kinds of adventurers; those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won’t." -Rabindranath Tagore