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"If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." –Fred Rogers
"Go to where the silence is and say something." –Amy Goodman
"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." –Jonathan Swift
"Everything in moderation, including moderation." –Oscar Wilde
"Once we give up searching for approval, we often find it easier to earn respect." –Gloria Steinem
"If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." –Malcolm X
"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." –Nathaniel Hawthorne
"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere." –Ursula K. Le Guin
"I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?" –Diogenes
"Death may be knocking on my door, but I'm not getting out of this glorious hot bath to answer it." –Amy Krouse Rosenthal
"It is us today. It will be you tomorrow." –Haile Selassie
"God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people’s problems on earth." –Steve Biko
"Good is not a thing you are. It is a thing you do." –G. Willow Wilson
"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life." –Lucan
"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt." –Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen." –Susette La Flesche
"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule." –The Buddha
"It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." –Charles Darwin
"I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie." –Jacqueline Carey
"No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us." –Marsha P. Johnson
"Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business." –Marshall Mathers
"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life." –Nelson Mandela
"Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things." –Leslie Jones
"Be silent, for it is a better gift than flowers." –Ptahhotep
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." –Paul R. Ehrlich
"Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people." –Harry S. Truman
"I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn." –Jackie Joyner-Kersee
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between dog and man." –Mark Twain
"Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time." –Mary Wollstonecraft
"Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you." –Frida Kahlo
"Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks—on your body or on your heart—are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt." —Anthony Bourdain
"You must never give in to despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength." —Iroh
"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility." —Rabindranath Tagore
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar', every 'supreme leader', every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena." –Carl Sagan
"You cannot believe now that you'll ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you less miserable now." –Abraham Lincoln
"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all." –John Greenleaf Whittier
"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying." —Joan of Arc
"Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous." –Georgia O'Keeffe
"I am still learning." –Michelangelo
"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." –Chief Seattle
"Civility costs nothing, and buys everything." –Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
"I have a bad feeling about this." –Obi-Wan Kenobi
"Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage." –Carl Bernstein
"A great artist can come from anywhere.” –Anton Ego, Ratatouille
"Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes." –Alfred C. Kinsey
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." —Albert Einstein
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people." —G. K. Chesterton
"The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia." –Umberto Eco
“Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” —Jim Davis
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He who represents himself has a fool for a client." –Abraham Lincoln
"I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition." —Jean-François Copé
"Caring about people, about things, about life is an act of maturity." —Tracy McMillan
"I'm here right now, I'm not dead yet." —The Raconteurs
"My flaws burn through my skin like demonic flames from hell." –$uicideBoy$
"I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions." —Susan Sarandon
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter." —Denis Diderot
"We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him." —Michel de Montaigne
"I think I'm cool. That's all that matters." —Tyler, the Creator
"The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us." —Frank Ocean
"We are all one – and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way." –Bayard Rustin
"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." —Bertrand Russell
"Priesthood, Imamhood, Pundithood often come hand in hand with tyranny." —Abhijit Naskar
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." —Wayne Dyer
"My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you." —Audre Lorde
"Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it." —Audre Lorde
"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed, but when we are silent we are still afraid, so it is better to speak." —Audre Lorde
"The most dangerous phrase in the language is ‘we’ve always done it this way.’" —Grace Hopper
"You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." —Shirley Chisolm
I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others." —Wole Soyinka
"Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me." —Friedrich Nietzsche
"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor." —James Baldwin
"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power." —Toni Morrison
"Even if you are not ready for day, it cannot always be night." —Gwendolyn Brooks
"Without music, life would be a mistake…" —Friedrich Nietzsche
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought, which they seldom use." —Søren Kierkegaard
"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." —Diogenes
"I go to seek a Great Perhaps." —François Rabelais
"What we've got here is failure to communicate." —'Captain', Cool Hand Luke
"It’s true that pain makes people change." —Kid Cudi
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." —Desmond Tutu
"Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you—a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you... It's like electricity — we don't really know what it is, do we? But it's a force that can light a room. Soul is like electricity, like a spirit, a drive, a power." —Ray Charles
"I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry." —Maxine Waters
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" —John Maynard Keynes
"War is how God teaches Americans geography." —Ambrose Bierce
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." —Zig Ziglar
"You bring out the best in yourself by looking for the best in others." —Gene Bedley
"Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner." —Lao Tzu
"You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight." —Jay-Z
"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves." —François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
"Sometimes, you gotta close a door to open a window." —Jerrod Carmichael in NEW MAGIC WAND by Tyler, The Creator
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." —Alice Walker
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." —Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Be Gay. Do Crimes" —@absentobject via Instagram
"Two people might argue, and even vent their frustrations to each other, but at the end of the day, they both believe that they want to accomplish the same goals, and they'll get back to that the moment things calm down." —User:MjolnirPants
"If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth." —Frank Herbert
"Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity." —Yoko Ono
"Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so." —Erin Hunter
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." —Douglas Adams
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." —Pablo Picasso
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence..." —John Adams
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." —Paulo Freire
"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth." —Voltaire
"So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause." –Padmé Amidala
"Music is the universal language of mankind." —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." —Marie Curie
"Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost." –Charlie Chaplin
"No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people." –Julius Nyerere
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words leave psychological wounds that will never heal." –Mr. Turner, The Fairly OddParents
"Comedy is acting out optimism." –Robin Williams
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history." –Martin Luther King Jr.
"The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.’" –Brenda Howard
"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant." –Harlan Ellison
"A clever person takes notice of everything; a stupid one makes a comment about everything." –Heinrich Heine
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." —Albert Einstein
"Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our viewpoint." –Obi-Wan Kenobi
"War broke: and now the Winter of the world / With perishing great darkness closes in." –Wilfred Owen
"It’s not about what you’re capable of, it’s about what you’re willing to do." –Mike Tomlin
"All of us are put in boxes by our family, by our religion, by our society, our moment in history, even our own bodies. Some people have the courage to break free." –Geena Rocero

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