Monthly Archives: December 2020

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December 31, 2020 by Jim Brooks

“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.”

Albert Schweitzer

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December 30, 2020 by Jim Brooks

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

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December 29, 2020 by Jim Brooks

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

Joan Powers, Pooh’s Little Instruction Book

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December 28, 2020 by Jim Brooks

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

George Orwell

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December 27, 2020 by Jim Brooks

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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December 26, 2020 by Jim Brooks

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”

Kurt Vonnegut

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December 25, 2020 by Jim Brooks

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

Charles Dickens

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December 24, 2020 by Jim Brooks

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.”

James Thurber

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December 23, 2020 by Jim Brooks

“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.”

Albert Schweitzer

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December 22, 2020 by Jim Brooks

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray