Alis volat propriis.
[She Flies With Her Own Wings]
Dum spiro spero, quae sursum volo videre.
[While I breathe I hope, I long to see what is beyond.]

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[from] Edgar Allan Poe: 'Alone'

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.

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"Is it so bad to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates,
and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton,
and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
To be great is to be misunderstood!"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Nobody made a greater mistake
than he who did nothing
because he could only do a little."

- Edmund Burke

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"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing."

- Albert Einstein

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"Truth resides in every human heart,
and one has to search for it there
and to be guided by truth as one sees it.
But no one has a right to coerce others to act
according to his own view of truth."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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"In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

- George Washington

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"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."

- Thomas Jefferson

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