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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
John GreenJohn Green You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
John GreenJohn Green Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
John GreenJohn Green Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
John GreenJohn Green What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
John GreenJohn Green Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
John GreenJohn Green Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
John GreenJohn Green We all use the future to escape the present.
John GreenJohn Green We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
John GreenJohn Green What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
John GreenJohn Green Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
John GreenJohn Green The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
John GreenJohn Green We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
John GreenJohn Green The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
John GreenJohn Green You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
John GreenJohn Green He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander HamiltonAlexander Hamilton In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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