"You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
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"All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated."
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"I am a child of God. I always carry that with me."
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"Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising."
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"It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me."
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"Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults."
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"I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come."
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"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."
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"The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood."
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"Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater."
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"Hold those things that tell your history and protect them."
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"The future is plump with promise."
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"Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use."
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"She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy."
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"Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away."
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"On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other."
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"I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die."
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"I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate."
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"Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy."
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"It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race."
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