„A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.“

„Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.“

—  Oprah Winfrey American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist 1954

„Never be so arrogant that you fail to give people the benefit of being as stupid as they actually are.“

—  Arthur Jones (inventor) American inventor 1926 - 2007

The New High Intensity Training (2004)

„because it's Spring
thingS dare to do people“

—  E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962

10
73 poems (1963)

„What private property does is connect effort to reward,
creating an incentive for people to produce more.
Then, if there's a free market,
people will trade their surpluses to each other for the things they lack.
Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.“

—  John Stossel American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author and libertarian columnist 1947

The Tragedy of the Commons https://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=3893247&page=1, ABC News (21 November 2007)

„It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.“

—  Rob Sheffield American music journalist 1966

Fuente: Love Is a Mix Tape

„There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others, uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more.“

—  Robert Nozick American political philosopher 1938 - 2002

Fuente: (1974), Ch. 3 : Moral Constraints and the State; Why Side Constraints?, p. 32

„Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.“

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882

„we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty“

—  Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

Book III, 3.10-[2]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book III

„The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.“

—  Dion Fortune British occultist and author 1890 - 1946

Dion Fortune, quoted in British esotericist and Fortune biographer Gareth Knight's Experience of the Inner Worlds

„The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. Such grace, such dignity, such a tragedy.“

—  Khaled Hosseini, libro Cometas en el cielo

Variante: The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
Fuente: The Kite Runner

„The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another.“

—  Henry Van Dyke American diplomat 1852 - 1933

Fisherman's Luck http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/fshlk10.txt, ch. 5 (1899)
Contexto: The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

„Would not all we mean by “communication between mind and mind” be provided for if we suppose that common knowledge comes about, not from our explaining things to one another, but from things explaining themselves in the same terms to us all? Accepting the object as its own interpreter, as its own “medium of communication,” do we not begin to understand what is utterly dark on any other view, how it comes to pass that the resulting knowledge is a common possession?“

—  L. P. Jacks British educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister 1860 - 1955

The Usurpation Of Language (1910)

„I never felt the need to do what everyone else did. And I wasn’t troubled by the fact that other people were doing other things.“

—  Saul Leiter American photographer 1923 - 2013

„I've never really been into flags of any kind, cause flags can bring people together, but they always bring people together against other people,“

—  Michael Franti American rapper 1966

Interview, live at Coachella http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YMwcXBePqE
Contexto: I've never really been into flags of any kind, cause flags can bring people together, but they always bring people together against other people, and I don't really consider myself to be a patriot in the sense that I say, 'okay, this is my nation,' I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet.

„By professing no ideal in morality, these nice people can never be accused of not living up to their creed. This is the great advantage that they have over the Christians — whose creed is so lofty that they can often and truly be accused of failing to meet its demands.“

—  Fulton J. Sheen Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895 - 1979

Fuente: Peace of Soul (1949), Ch. 5, p. 71

„If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.“

—  Victor Hugo, libro Los miserables

Fuente: Les Misérables

„The tax upon land values is, therefore, the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a peculiar and valuable benefit, and upon them in proportion to the benefit they receive. It is the taking by the community, for the use of the community, of that value which is the creation of the community. It is the application of the common property to common uses. When all rent is taken by taxation for the needs of the community, then will the equality ordained by Nature be attained. No citizen will have an advantage over any other citizen save as is given by his industry, skill, and intelligence; and each will obtain what he fairly earns. Then, but not till then, will labor get its full reward, and capital its natural return.“

—  Henry George, libro Progress and Poverty

Book VIII, Ch. 3
Progress and Poverty (1879)

„Any man who spends his income, whether large or small, benefits the community by putting money in circulation.“

—  Arthur Kekewich British judge 1832 - 1907

In re Nottage (1895), L. R. 2 C. D. [1895], p. 653.

„I’ve been travelling a lot. My boyfriend and I, we just went to Santa Fe. You know, the one named after the gay saint. Has anybody ever been to Santa Fe? …did you know it was a desert? I didn’t know it was a desert. Hated it! People had been telling me for years, if you’re an artist, a non-conformist, come to Santa Fe! I mean, it’s the place you can be yourself! The light, the light, you can paint here! You can live here, the space, the sky! – The fucking dust! I was doing an AIDS benefit there – like what else do I do with my life?“

—  Harvey Fierstein actor from the United States 1954

and I said, look, I’m a guest here, you’re paying for the hotel, I don’t mean to insult nobody, but I got a little suggestion for you. If I was yaz, I’d take a hose, hook it up to Colorado, and water this fucking place!
This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995)