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Earhart, Amelia : The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. (Amelia Earhart, U.S. aviation pioneer [first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean] and author, and author, 1897-1937)

Eastman, Max : People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. (Max Eastman, U.S. journalist and poet, 1883-19691)

Eban, Aba : History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. (Aba Eban, Israeli politician and diplomat, 1915-2002)

Ebeling, Mick : Jump and the net will appear. (Mick Ebeling, U.S. film, television and commercial executive producer, author, and entrepreneur, Born 1973)

Ebner-eschenbach, Marie Von : To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer and nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1830-1916)

Ebner-eschenbach, Marie Von : In youth we learn; in age we understand. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer, 1830-1916)

Ebner-eschenbach, Marie Von : To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer, 1830-1916)

Eckhart, Meister : Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. (Meister Eckhart, German theologian, philosopher and mystic, 1260-1327)

Eco, Umberto : Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. (Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and semiotician, 1932-2016)

Eco, Umberto : Fear-prophets - and those prepared to die for the truth - as a rule, make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them. (Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and semiotician, 1932-2016)

Eco, Umberto : Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. (Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and semiotician, 1932-2016)

Eco, Umberto : Art is a form of perceptual gymnastics. (Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and semiotician, 1932-2016)

Eddy, Mary Baker : Error is mortal. (Mary Baker Eddy, U.S. writer and religious leader who established the Church of Christ, Scientist, founder of The Christian Science Monitor, a global newspaper that has won seven Pulitzer Prizes, and was an inductee to the Women’s National Hall of Fame,)

Eddy, Mary Baker : Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind. (Mary Baker Eddy, U.S. spiritual leader who established the Church of Christ, Scientist and founded The Christian Science Monitor, a global newspaper that has won seven Pulitzer Prizes, 1821-1910)

Edison, Thomas Alva : Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

Edison, Thomas Alva : Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

Edison, Thomas Alva : I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

Edison, Thomas Alva : A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. (H.L. Mencken, U.S. writer, editor, and critic, 1880-1956Evolution: Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

Edison, Thomas Alva : We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

Edison, Thomas Alva : Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

Edison, Thomas Alva : I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

Edison, Thomas Alva : Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

Edison, Thomas Alva : Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

Edison, Thomas Alva : Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

Edison, Thomas Alva : Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

Ehrenreich, Barbara : Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist and, political activist, Born 1941)

Ehrenreich, Barbara : Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich, U.S. journalist, activist, and author, Born 1941)

Ehrlich, Gretel : Walking is also an ambulation of mind. (Gretel Ehrlich, U.S. novelist, poet, and essayist, Born 1946)

Ehrlich, Gretel : Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far? (Gretel Ehrlich, U.S. travel writer, poet and essayist, Born 1946)

Einstein, Albert : Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Never do anything against conscience - even if the state demands it. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Creativity is the residue of wasted time. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy? (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the Theory of Relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the Theory of Relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Strive not to be a success, but rather to be a value. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Information is not knowledge. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the world. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Knowledge is limited, but imagination encircles the world. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the results to be different is insanity. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : The significant problems of our time cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Everything has changed, except our way of thinking. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from that of their social environment. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Einstein, Albert : I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

Eisenhower, Dwight D. : Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. politician and Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

Eisenhower, Dwight D. : If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking . . . is freedom. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. five-star army general who served as the 34th president of the Unites States,1890-1969)

Eisenhower, Dwight D. : I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. politician and Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

Eisenhower, Dwight D. : I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. politician and Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

Eisenhower, Dwight D. : Beware of the military-industrial complex~ It may destroy within what it's protecting from without. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. politician and Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

Elbaradei, Mohamed : The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world. (Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian diplomat, Nobel laureate, Born 1942)

Eliot, T.S. : Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. (T.S. Eliot, U.S. born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

Eliot, Charles W. : Books are the quietest and most constant of friends. (Charles W. Eliot, U.S. academic who was the longest serving president of Harvard University, 1834-1926)

Eliot, T.S. : We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. (T.S. Eliot, U.S.-born British subject , an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1888-1965)

Eliot, T.S. : Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? (T.S. Eliot, U.S.-born British subject , an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1888-1965)

Eliot, T.S. : One starts an action simply because one must do something. (T.S. Eliot, U.S.-born British subject , an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1888-1965)

Eliot, George : Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot, English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of her era, 1819-1880)

Ellington, Duke : I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline. (Duke Ellington, U.S. jazz pianist, composer, and conductor, 1899-1974)

Ellis, Havelock : Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. (Havelock Ellis, British physician, writer, and social reformer, 1859-1939)

Ellis, Havelock : What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance. (Havelock Ellis, English physician, writer, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)

Ellis, Havelock : In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. (Havelock Ellis, English physician, writer, and progressive social reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)

Ellison, Harlan : The minute people fall in love, they become liars. (Harlan Ellison, U.S. writer of speculative fiction, including short stories, screenplays, and literary criticism, Born 1934)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Sanity is very rare; every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : When a whole nation is roaring 'Patriotism' at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of heart. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : No man has a prosperity so high or firm, but that two or three words can dishearten it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Earth laughs in flowers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Difficulties exist to be surmounted. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : A friend is a masterpiece of nature. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : God enters by a private door into every individual. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : The first wealth is health. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops -- no, but the kind of man the country turns out. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Language is a city to which every human being brought a stone for the building of it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Make yourself necessary to somebody. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Do not follow where the path leads. Rather, go where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : To learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Every burned book enlightens the world. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : The lady declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to bestow. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Whatever limits us we call Fate. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : When a whole nation is roaring �Patriotism� at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of heart. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo : Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

Engels, Friedrich : An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. (Friedrich Engels, German Marxist philosopher, social scientist, journalist, and businessman, 1820-1895)

Erskine, John : Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean thing. (John Erskine, U.S. educator, author, and musician, 1879-1951)

Ettor, Joseph : If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. (Joseph Ettor, U.S. trade union organizer, 1885-1948)

Ettor, Joseph : If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. (Joseph Ettor, U.S. trade union organizer, 1885-1948)

Evans, Mari : If there be sorrow / let it be / for things undone / undreamed / unrealized unattained / to these add one: / Love withheld ... / restrained. (Mari Evans, U.S. poet, 1919-2017)