Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

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We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

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There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

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Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

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There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

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Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

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The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

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I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

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