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“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
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“Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.”
Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications
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“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
Source : Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.
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“Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.”
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“As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.”
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“The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.”
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“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”
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“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
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“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”
Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.”
