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Bernard Malamud
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"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."
Edward R. Murrow
“Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.” —Charles Glassman
"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
William Faulkner
"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life."
Edwin Markham
"Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage."
J. Robert Oppenheimer
"It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved."
Gwendolyn Brooks
‘Lies-to-children’ are just stepping stones to deeper truths. 
In science (and life), what we first learn isn’t always the whole story—sometimes it’s just what we need to understand before we’re ready for more! 
#Science #Education #QuoteOfTheDay
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
Louis D. Brandeis
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
Helen Keller
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom."
Clarence Darrow
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein, courtesy of The Economist.
"When you like something, you should do it all night long."
Chavela Vargas
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B.F. Skinner, courtesy The Economist
"Try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
Leonardo da Vinci
Today is plenty; right now is enough. Tomorrow will come in good time. Until it does, live the depth of now.
- Ralph Marston
"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for."
Seamus Heaney
