"Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission."
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"Niggers are killing niggers, and penitentiaries are full of niggers and Mexicans. Why don't y'all give us some money to help us stop this problem? We want to go to college instead of going to the pen. Give us a future."
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"An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived. It unifies your efforts and energy. It gives meaning and purpose to all you do."
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"There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art."
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"Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path."
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"I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house."
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"The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others."
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"Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments."
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"When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer"
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"Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our richest and most wholesome experience in life."
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"My parents were lovely. They've always been supportive. When you love your child, you don't know what to do with someone who wants to do what no one else does successfully. If I had someone younger I loved, I'd be worried for them too if I didn't have guidance to give them."
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"Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue."
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"Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief."
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"To bankrupt a fool, give him information."
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"As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me."
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"This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]"
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"When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received."
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"Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course."
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"When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work."
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"You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours."
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