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Optimistic Quotes — page 141 of 204

Lech Walesa Politician, Activist
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“Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.”

James Freeman Clarke Clergyman, Author
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“He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.”

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“The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.”

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“We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.”

Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
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“You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your life then you can possibly imagine.”

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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“Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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“Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth," - our forests, not to hold the king's game merely, but to hold and preserve the king himself also, the lord of creation, - not for idle sport or food, but for inspiration and our own true re-creation?”

Henry George Economist, Journalist
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“Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.”

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James Monroe Politician
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“The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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“I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.”

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John Lennon Musician, Activist
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“It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -​ so they promise. And I believe it, too.”

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John Taylor Musician
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“Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music.”

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