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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel

Human, Silence, Suffering

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire

Life, Alone, Game

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski

Crazy, Live, Lives

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Ronald Reagan

Rights, Act, Necessary

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin

Happy, May, Two

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin

Silence, Word, Idle

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
Ayn Rand

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau

True, Liberty, Foundation

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Book, Down

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington

Peace, War, Powerful

He that rises late must trot all day.
Benjamin Franklin

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin

Pain, Laugh, Play

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams

Job, Fact, Getting

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Good, Character, True

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius

Change, Happiness, Wisdom

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Greatest, Precious

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury

Enemy, Thinking, Try

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle

God, Society, Live

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Give, Star, Within

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela

Time, Realize, Forever

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
John F. Kennedy

Time, Tool, Couch

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Creative, Read

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Lao Tzu

Give, Beginning

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus

God, Wisdom, Pain

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth, Mind, Cannot

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin Luther

Alone, Two, Dying

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ground, Higher, Lift

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo

Give, Enough, Prayer

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Power, Wisdom

Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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