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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote

They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.
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Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life, with all its sorrows, is good; that everything is meaningful, even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
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They put us up in a hotel and told us we can only stay up to three days. That was it,
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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives
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The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.
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The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote

Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that th
~ Dorothy Thompson Quote

Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.
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Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.
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Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?
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I don't know where we would be without our faith,
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There is nothing more demoralizing than sudden, overwhelming disillusionment
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It was scary. By the time the fire department got here, the whole house was in flames,
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