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Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions. ↗

— Bob Inglis

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And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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