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author['Anonymous'] = '';
author['Robert Barclay'] = '(1648-1690), expositor of Quaker theology';
author['Booklet entitled THE QUAKERS'] = '';
author['Elisabeth Dearborn'] = 'Feb. 13, 2000';
author['George Fox'] = '(1624-1691), founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers)';
author['George Fox & others'] = 'The 1660 Declarations Regarding Wars and Fighting';
author['Elizabeth Fry'] = '(1780-1845), pioneer prison reformer';
author['Marsha D. Holliday'] = 'Silent Worship and Quaker Values';
author['Thomas R. Kelly'] = 'A Testament of Devotion, 1941';
author['Rufus Jones'] = '(1863-1948), influential Friend';
author['Margaret Mead'] = '';
author['James Naylor'] = '(1618-1660), English Quaker leader';
author['William Penn'] = '(1644-1718), English Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania';
author['John Wilhelm Rowntree'] = '(1868-1905), English Quaker leader';
author['Douglas Steere'] = 'Work and Contemplation, 1942';
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['A visitor to a Quaker meeting stands up after five minutes of silence and asks, "When does the service begin?" An old Friend rises after a brief reflection and says, "Service begins when the worship ends.', 'Anonymous'],
['This is the great work of the scriptures and their service to us, that we may witness them fulfilled in us. ...', 'Robert Barclay'],
['The Inner Light is not conscience but it is that which enlightens conscience.', 'Booklet entitled THE QUAKERS'],
['The body of Christ, old Quakers say, is not a metaphor. It is a living climate, an organism in which we function. Those who minister are not separate; they are extensions of the one Life and Power.', 'Elisabeth Dearborn'],
['I saw, also, that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. In that also I saw the infinite love of God, and I had great openings.', 'George Fox'],
['One man raised by God\'s power to stand and live in the same spirit the apostle and prophets were in, can shake the country for ten miles around.', 'George Fox'],
['Let your lives speak.', 'George Fox'],
['I told them that I lived in that life and power that takes away the occasion for all war.', 'George Fox'],
['...while I was a child I was taught how to walk to be kept pure. The Lord taught me to be faithful in all things, and to act faithfully two ways, viz. inwardly to God and outwardly to man...', 'George Fox'],
['He [Oliver Cromwell] said: "I see there is a people risen, that I cannot win either with gifts, honors, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can."', 'George Fox'],
['All bloody principles and practices, as to our own particulars, we utterly deny; with all outward wars and strife, and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under an pretense whatsoever; this is our testimony to the whole world.', 'George Fox & others'],
['I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not.', 'Elizabeth Fry'],
['I do not like the habit of that mysterious, ambiguous mode of expression... I like the truth in simplicity; it needs no mysterious garment.', 'Elizabeth Fry'],
['While all Quakers meet in worship to hear more clearly God\'s "still small voice" (1 Kings 19:12), Friends in the unprogrammed Quaker tradition base our worship entierly on expectant waiting. We take the Psalmist\'s advice literally: "Be still and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10).', 'Marsha D. Holliday'],
['Walk and talk and work and laugh with your friends. But behind the scenes keep up the life of simple prayer and inward worship.', 'Thomas R. Kelly'],
['We shall not be able to rebuild our shattered world until we recover our faith in eternal realities, and we shall not do that until we discover something spiritual within ourselves.', 'Rufus Jones'],
['George Fox and his circle of Friends knew only too well that they were merely a remnant... but he lived and died in the faith that the Quaker group was the Seed of an immense world-wide harvest that would .... Eventually become universal.', 'Rufus Jones'], 
['There are no known limits to the creative and transforming effects of this cooperation of the spirit of a believing person with the Great Divine Companion.', 'Rufus Jones'],
['There must be amidst all the confusions of the hour a tried and undisturbed remnant of persons who will not become purveyors of coercion and violence, who are ready to stand alone, if it is necessary, for the way of peace and love among men.', 'Rufus Jones'],
['The whole atmosphere of service must be pervaded by a calm mind, by a spirit of reconciliation, by clear insight, by undeviating fidelity, and by respect for the views of life which are precious to those whom you are serving.', 'Rufus Jones'],
['The Society of Friends....is primarily and essentially a widely scattered number of local meetings, little cells, where the actual vitality and power and future potency of Quakerism is being settled and determined.', 'Rufus Jones'],
['We shall not be able to rebuild our shattered world until we recover our faith in eternal realities, and we shall not do that until we discover something spiritual within ourselves.', 'Rufus Jones'],
['To discover a truth involves the apostolic task of going out and doing it.', 'Rufus Jones'],
['Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.', 'Margaret Mead'],
['There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to avenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things in hope to enjoy its own in the end.', 'James Naylor'],
['A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.', 'William Penn'],
['A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.', 'William Penn'],
['Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.', 'William Penn'],
['Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.', 'William Penn'],
['There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.', 'William Penn'],
['Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.', 'William Penn'],
['Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.', 'William Penn'],
['O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.', 'William Penn'],
['True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.', 'William Penn'],
['In the noisy rush of modern life we need periods of quiet when the soul may feed in peace on that which shall nourish it for action.', 'John Wilhelm Rowntree'],
['Life is made up of hundreds of microscopic decisions between right and wrong.', 'John Wilhelm Rowntree'],
['Stand apart at times from outward observance and the spoken word, and in the spirit of inward worship weigh your life, observe its trend, realize its purpose. Give your soul room to grow.', 'John Wilhelm Rowntree'],
['Brevity, earnestness, sincerity - and frequently a lack of polish - characterize the best Quaker speaking.', 'John Wilhelm Rowntree'],
['Only upon rare occasions today is it possible for a working community to share common corporate contemplation. But there is nothing that prepares for corporate contemplation more effectively than a community of common work.', 'Douglas Steere'],
['There is something in commonly exercised physical work that prepares and cements and opens a community for common contemplation.', 'Douglas Steere']];
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