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“The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.” ~ Eleanor Holmes Norton
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“In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else’s path is wrong.” ~ Paulo Coelho
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“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” ~ Nelson Mandela
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“Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.” ~ Timothy Keller
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“We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.”—Max de Pree
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“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage – to know who we are and where we came from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.”
~ Alex Haley
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“He who has no fools, knaves, or beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.” ~ Old English proverb
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“When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.” ~ Toni Morrison
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“The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” ~Dodie Smith
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“We inherit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted. Each of us contains within this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.” ~ Edward Sellner
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“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?” ~ Erma Bombeck
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“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” ~ Arthur Rubinstein
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember
that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
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“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
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“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” ~ W. Clement Stone
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“Blessed is the person who has earned the love of an old dog.”
~ Sydney Jeanne Seward
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“We’ve got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.”
~ Michelle Obama
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“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.”
~ Stevie Wonder
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“There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” ~ Will Rogers
November is Adopt a Senior Pet Month
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“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”
~ Bob Marley
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If YOU fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle much worse than we realize. It matters HOW you are going to FINISH. Are you going to finish strong?” ~ Nick Vujicic
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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
~ Nelson Mandela
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“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
~ Steve Jobs
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“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“When a society or a civilization perishes, one condition can always be found. They forgot where they came from.” ~ Carl Sandburg
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“Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?”~ Desmond Tutu
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“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
~ Johann Schiller
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“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you might as well make it dance.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
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“I love that in celebrating Halloween, we can get lost in the magic of make-believe and fantasy no matter what age we are!” ~ Natalya Neidhart
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“It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.” ~
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“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.” ~ Paula Curan
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“We’re all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”
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“A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.”
~ Erma Bombeck
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“We inherit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted.
Each of us contains within this inheritance of soul. We are links between
the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories
and future promise.” ~ Edward Sellner
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“Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.” ~ Author Unknown
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“Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability
to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It’s something
the rest of us strive for.” ~ Jennifer Skiff, The Divinity of Dogs
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be
done without hope and confidence.” ~ Helen Keller
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“What one does is what counts and not what one
had the intention of doing.” ~ Pablo Picasso
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“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country.” ~ Noah Webster
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“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
~ Jimmy Carter
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“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” ~ Bethany Hamilton
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“Whoever declared that love at first sight doesn’t exist has never witnessed the purity of a puppy or looked deep into a puppy’s eyes. If they did, their lives would change considerably.” ~ Paw Prints in the Sand
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“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.” ~ Anonymous
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“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” ~ Emily Dickensen
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“After we bring food home from the grocery store…Dogs must think we are the greatest hunters ever!” ~
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“When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.” ~ Howard Schultz
