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“Anger closes the mind and cools the heart when both are need most”

— Anonymous

“The understanding of atomic physics is child’s play, compared with the understanding of child’s play.”

— David Kresh

“If I’ve learned one thing in the past months it has been to save the energy I used to expend on being angry about injustice and put that energy into thinking and feeling joy, prosperity, sustainability, health and justice for all. This is what will change the world…………..a ground swell of people pouring their energy into manifesting their “preferred future” instead of being worn down by disillusion and disappointment.”

— Molly Carlile, Author of Jelly Beans and Dead Serious Podcast Network

“It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”

— Nelson Mandela

“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I cannot condone the systematic destruction of the hope and spirit of people who have suffered hardship and pain to reach our shores. They are people who believe that they have been or are at risk of being persecuted in their own country.”

— Former Australian of the Year and one-time refugee John Yu Dr Yu, Chancellor of the University of NSW and a renowned pediatrician, was himself smuggled out of China as a three-year-old shortly before it fell to Japanese forces in World War II.

“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.”

— Whitney Griswold

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Society is indeed a contract – becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”

— Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790

“The day will come when men will recognise women as their peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.”

— Susan B. Anthony
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