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"I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that and I am open enough to say it."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them."

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Milan Kundera Writer
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"To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Surrendering only refers to this moment, whatever "is" at this moment - to accept unconditionally and fully whatever arises at this moment."

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