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Quotes of the Day for 27 November 2004 - Brotherhood

Having set my plans for the week's themes at the outset, I'm surprised to find that I'm changing today's theme by request. A reader in Tver, Russian Federation will celebrate a birthday today, while a twin brother celebrates in Seattle. Our celebration of blessings this week, combined with thousands of miles of separation, led to a request that I see as a meaningful extension of blessings to be thankful for.

There is a destiny that makes us brothers,
  None goes his way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others
  Comes back into our own.
     - Edwin Markham, 1852 - 1940

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
     - François de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon, 1651 - 1715

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
     - Martin Luther King, Jr, 1929 - 1968

American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?
     - Herbert Clark Hoover, 1874 - 1964

Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.
     - Eric Sevareid, 1912 - 1992

If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.
     - Oscar Hammerstein II, 1895 - 1960

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