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White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to…
— Cornel West
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Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful,…
— Otto von Bismarck
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Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a…
— J. G. Ballard
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Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
— Don DeLillo
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But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.
— Terry Goodkind
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is…
— Anne Lamott
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My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any…
— Albert Einstein
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Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science…
— Carl Sagan
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Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.
— Joyce Meyer
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You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.
— Joyce Meyer
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another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement,…
— Barack Obama
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Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome…
— Marcus Aurelius
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At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you…
— Kate DiCamillo
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Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go…
— Vandana Shiva
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Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1)…
— David Letterman
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Alas, if worth be based on beauty, Snow White has surpassed you, cutie.
— James Finn Garner
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