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Sunday Inspiration: Vices

Vices are their own punishment.
—Aesop

Sunday Inspiration: Hate

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
—Martin Luther King Jr.

Sunday Inspiration: Risk

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
—Albert Einstein

Sunday Inspiration: Music

Music…will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sunday Inspiration: True to Oneself

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
—Frederick Douglass

Sunday Inspiration: Effort

All things are difficult before they are easy.
—Thomas Fuller

Sunday Inspiration: Individuality

Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.
Bruce Lee

Sunday Inspiration: Holding People Down

You can’t hold someone down without staying down with them.
—Booker T. Washington

Sunday Inspiration: Work

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
—Frederick Douglass

Sunday Inspiration: Choirs

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
—Paul McCartney