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Unknown Author (top)
A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!
- Unknown Author


Martin H. Fischer (top)
A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community.
- Martin H. Fischer
In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems.
- Martin H. Fischer


Nathaniel Hawthorne (top)
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne


Hubert H. Humphrey (top)
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
- Hubert H. Humphrey


Lady Bird Johnson (top)
While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.
- Lady Bird Johnson


Mignon McLaughlin (top)
Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.
- Mignon McLaughlin


Herman Melville (top)
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
- Herman Melville


Franklin D. Roosevelt (top)
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (top)
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


George Bernard Shaw (top)
"Independence"... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
- George Bernard Shaw


Adlai E. Stevenson (top)
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
- Adlai E. Stevenson


Richard Whately (top)
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
- Richard Whately