"Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies."
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"This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world."
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"Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well."
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"At least you don’t need a prescription for tequila."
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"How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us."
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"It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions."
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"You don't have a man, you need spaghetti."
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"Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my nose.' You either need to come to peace with it and be like, alright, I hate it, but it's part of me - or change it. So I'm not against plastic surgery, I'm against plastic surgery when it doesn't really need to be done."
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"Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place."
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"She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair."
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"Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher."
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"We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship."
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"If you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, you need to stop doing it. You aren’t living your truth."
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"There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one."
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"But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion."
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"Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs."
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"We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat."
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"Who needs action when you got words?"
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"If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever."
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"We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease."
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