"Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what."
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"Matter is Energy ... Energy is Light ... We are all Light Beings"
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"Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible."
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"The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge."
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"When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter."
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"One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him."
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"The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned."
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"The solutions are here. They have always been here. Food does matter!"
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"Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits."
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"If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take."
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"What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn't matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday."
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"Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say."
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"Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born."
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"With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them."
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"I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what."
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"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."
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"It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick."
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"All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter."
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"It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods."
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"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!"
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