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Michael J. Silverstein Businessman, Author
Grateful

“The Golden Rule works. It really does. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Kindness begets kindness.”

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Michael Jordan Professional Basketball Player
Determined

“The greatest people that ever lived were also the greatest failures. They just didn’t let those failures affect them like they do most.”

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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
Philosophical

“There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.”

Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
Philosophical

“The political and social processes by which the Western European societies were put in order are not very apparent, have been forgotten, or have become habitual. They are part of our most familiar landscape, and we don't perceive them anymore. But most of them once scandalized people.”

Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
Philosophical

“People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.”

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Michelangelo Antonioni Film Director, Screenwriter
Philosophical

“There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.”

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Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
Angry

“There's no expert on this planet who says that the government telling people what to do actually does any good with this issue, this is going to require an effort on everyone's part.”

Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
Courageous

“You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy.”

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Mike Willis Artist
Wise

“I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.”

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Milan Kundera Writer
Courage

“I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.”

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Milan Kundera Writer
Courageous

“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.”

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MF Philosophical

“All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.”

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Morrie Schwartz Professor, Author
Grateful

“The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.”

Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
Hopeful

“To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them but that they carry with them love, peace and joy. That they become the sunshine of God's love to our people, the hope of eternal happiness and the burning flame of love wherever they go. That they become carriers of God's love. That they be able to give what they have received. For they have received not to keep, but to share.”

Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist
Confident

“I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be.”

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