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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
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
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
Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances. — Joyce Meyer
You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks. — Joyce Meyer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Alas, if worth be based on beauty, Snow White has surpassed you, cutie. — James Finn Garner
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. — Jeanette Winterson
I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God,… — Anne Rice
The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest… — Alice Sebold
I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think… — Marilynne Robinson
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property;… — Emma Goldman
Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never… — Andrea Camilleri
Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything. — Nick Harkaway
To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we… — Derrick Jensen
Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal… — Terry Tempest Williams
She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates… — Paulo Coelho

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