A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

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"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."

- Lucy Larcom

Compassion

"“Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”"

- Lucy Larcom

Hope

"If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it."

- Lucy Larcom

Hope

"He who plants a tree. Plants a hope."

- Lucy Larcom

Hope

"Each red stripe has blazoned forth Gospels writ in blood; Every star has sung the birth Of some deathless good."

- Lucy Larcom

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"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."

- Archer

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"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."

- Paine

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"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

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"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

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"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G.K. Chesterton

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