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  Does anybody else share this hunger for civility and peace and brotherhood again in the land?
—Jim Lawence
 

We ought not to have to march every time there is an injustice. We ought to be able to elect people of good will.
—Martin Luther King

  The future isn't what it used to be.
—Marshall McLuhan
  Gandhi was asked what he thought about western civilization.
He responded, "I think it would be a good idea.
 

When you see anyone--an athlete, a musician, a dancer, a craftsman--doing something difficult and making it look easy and a joy, you feel enhanced. It is a victory for the human side, over the enemies of clumsiness, timidity and exhaustion.
—Roger Ebert, reviewing Swing Time

  There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
—Marshall McLuhan
  Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
—Kenneth Boulding
  Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to start where he was.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
  A practitioner who appears unconcerned with gain or loss may be deeply unenlightened or just apathetic.
—Sheng Yen
  Elegance is refusal.
—Diana Vreeland