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Inspiration for the Week

Monday, September 1st, 2008

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not […]

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Inspiration for the Week

Monday, August 25th, 2008

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power,the world will know peace.”* Jimi Hendrix

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Inspiration for the Week

Monday, August 18th, 2008

“You cannot teach a person anything;you can only help him find it within himself.”* Galileo

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Inspiration for the Week

Monday, August 11th, 2008

“When an idea is ready to be spoken – it is ready when there is someone ready to speak it. If you wait until people are ready to hear it, it is no longer an idea.”* Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Inspiration for the Week

Monday, August 4th, 2008

“It is better to fail trying to do something challenging, than to live your whole life doing only that which is easy.”* my sweet husband

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Inspiration for the Week

Monday, July 28th, 2008

“It is difficult to get a man to understand somethingwhen his job depends on not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair

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Inspiration for the Week

Monday, July 21st, 2008

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”• Martin Luther King Jr.

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Inspiration for the Week

Monday, July 14th, 2008

“One can’t believe impossible things.”Said the Queen, “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’d believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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Inspiration for the Week

Monday, July 7th, 2008

“The primary task of the soul will always beto investigate reality,to live in accordance with the truthsof which it becomes persuadedand to accord full respect to the effortsof others to do the same.”* Universal House of Justice(world governing body of the Bahá’ís)in it’s 2002 Letter to the World’s Religious Leaders

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Inspiration for the Week

Monday, June 30th, 2008

“I don’t know what I may seem to the world,” he said before he died, “but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth […]

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