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no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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You have to have a certain kind of thickening of the hide. I mean, I'm not particularly worried about what other people… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
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In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The cities that I go to where I can tell that they have a lot of different types of drag, I tell… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
Many women are so scared of the society and of their families, that if they get pregnant out of wedlock, they would… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
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I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
Those who wish to change the world should have the best possible understanding of the world, including what is revealed by the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Everyone has something unique to bring to this world. And if you understand that, if you cherish that, if you embrace who… — Matt Czuchry Copy Share Image
For me, the word 'housewife,' because of, like, the 'Real Housewives' - I don't think housewife really means what it used to… — Sarah Dunn Copy Share Image
It is not important to be a believer, it is not important to be religious, because there are billons around the world… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Particularly with our games, people get involved with the characters and the world. They're going to take their time with it pretty… — Todd Howard Copy Share Image
Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising… — David Farland Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going… — John McCain Copy Share Image
no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
When I grew up, I never saw anyone looking like me on TV, you know? I'm so glad to see a lot… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
My tortured life - with its extremes and conflicts - might have been difficult for me to deal with, but the press… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
I've never really taken myself seriously as an actor, It is surprising the amount of people who think I'm going to be… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image