"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from."
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"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
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"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
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"What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows."
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"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
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"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
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"However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?"
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"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."
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"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
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"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
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"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."
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"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
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"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."
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"You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way."
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"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
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"People living deeply have no fear of death."
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"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
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"You feel your strength in the experience of pain."
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"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
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"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister."
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