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“It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken”
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“I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'”
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“Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.”
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“The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.”
Source : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. April 15, 2007. 
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“Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.”
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“Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.”
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“Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.”
Source : Marita Golden (2011). “And Do Remember Me”, p.105, Ballantine Books
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“Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use them to verify or discredit whatever theory may have been advanced concerning them, so it is the province of a living theology to be constantly seeking from God the wit and wisdom that will interpret anew and more truly the parable of life.”
Source : Burnett Hillman Streeter, Arthur Clutton-Brock, Cyril William Emmet, James Arthur Hadfield, Lily Dougall (1922). “Immortality: An Essay in Discovery, Co-ordinating Scientific, Psychical, and Biblical Research”
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“The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
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“To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.”
Source : "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p. 8), 1949.
