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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you…
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,…
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw…
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice…
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
— Maya Angelou
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Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of…
— Cody Lundin
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The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by…
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It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the…
— Stafford Cripps
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I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I…
— June Jordan
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What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under…
— H.G. Wells
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a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and…
— Bertrand Russell
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