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Quotes

Smith Scholar

Quotes

“Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it”


― Vaclav Havel.




"We are under a constitution, but the constitution is under what the judge says it is."


― Justice Charles Evan Hughes




“Neither should it be for a woman: for we’ve got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I’m sick of being told that [love] is all a woman is fit for! I won’t have anything to do with love till I prove that I am something besides a housekeeper and baby-tender!”


― Louisa Alcott, Little Women




"[R]eforming our criminal justice system is essential to any serious effort to fight poverty."


― Michael Tanner




“We fail to keep our attention focused, to penetrate to the heart of matters, and to recognize what is essential to give meaning to our lives. Freedom thus becomes an illusion that we are peddled, easily confused with the ability to navigate the internet.”


― Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti




"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."


― Albert Einstein




"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."


― Malcolm X




"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable."


― Mary Oliver




"To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift."


― Steve Prefontaine




"Those who live in the present live in the past, while those who live in the past determine the future"


― Unknown




“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”


― George Orwell, 1984




"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."


― Joseph Stalin




“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.”


― Winston Churchill




“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.”


— Winston Churchill




“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”


— Winston Churchill




“Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me, it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.”


— Alexei Navalny





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