"This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before."
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"In diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
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"No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."
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"I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people."
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"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
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"God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope."
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"People will never forget how you made them feel."
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
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"I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do."
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"We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color."
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"Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight."
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"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."
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"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."
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"I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists."
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"Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg."
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"Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible."
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"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
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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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"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine."
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"Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option."
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