Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

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When he saw the lovers in the midst of the encircling crowd, Wells smiled once more, hoping that wha

Author: Félix J. Palma
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To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undir

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I'm not used to seeing people's faces. There's too much information there. Aren't you aware of it? T

Author: Michael Finkel
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Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

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One of the greatest indicators of how much truth and honesty is in a country, is easily seen by obse

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All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding

Author: Robert Burns
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You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope

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The great compete not only against others, but against themselves.

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The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anythin

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A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for

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To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distanc

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I played my role as the good Christian girl and spared everyone the drama of an argument. But that d

Author: Rachel Held Evans
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This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater t

Author: John Granger
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There is no limitations except those we create for ourselves

Author: Lolly Daskal
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All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possib

Author: Tiger Woods
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The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process

Author: Ben Carson
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You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you a

Author: Joel Parkinson
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A busy life is filled with tremendous emptiness.

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Like everyone, I want my soul to thrum. I run my long nails over the keys like I'm scratching the ba

Author: Carlos Hernández
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Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other

Author: David Cameron
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Author: Thomas Paine
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Magical since Birth.

Author: Stephanie Lahart
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And so, what of it all? What of me and my passions and personas, my great loves and failures of love

Author: Elizabeth Berg
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If you're not quite cognizant of your madness, then you're deliberately blindfolded to your supposed

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Author: Aristotle
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When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affect

Author: Radhanath Swami
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What does your birth date say about you? You are old!

Author: Ljupka Cvetanova
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I never had any problem with my heart, till I met you!

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I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worth

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The only thing you can do with the dreams when you realize it’s already morning is to regret wasting

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According to your strategy plan and how it looks is commensurate with how much effort you will apply

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America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like

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The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.

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There is no better example for our children,then the one we set before them every day

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Doubt and faith do not exist in the same person at the same time

Author: Joseph Smith
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I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs a

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If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelmi

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Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.

Author: Joan Lowery Nixon
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For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive a

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
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We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that

Author: Erich Maria Remarque
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Don’t worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. That’s all you wanted in a boy

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They have a choice to hurt us but we have a choice to be free from pain...

Author: Mhel-tin Prado
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The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long e

Author: Gene Sharp
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What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
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Again, her singing was her only absolute, the only thing that was completely her. a thousand classes

Author: David Grossman
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Author: Robert Greene
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More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someonewho might

Author: John Green
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Sportsmanship isn't about criticizing the "ONE" who didn't win on "That ONE"day... it's about apprec

Author: Akansh Malik
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A flower doesn’t expect love. She is happy with herself. If she gets love, she celebrates.

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A broken heart doesn't need repaired. Because maybe one of your pieces fits perfectly with someone e

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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our l

Author: Oscar Wilde
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Progress, You can see how well you are doing on achieving your goals, after you start something.

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Each of us has immense potential to achieve what we desire, unless we enliven and enlighten our life

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Seeing everything through different eyes, as I look to the sky with love in my sight,realizing what

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She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have h

Author: Tove Jansson
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Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

Author: Albert Camus
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmenta

Author: Frances Beinecke
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Inspiration builds self-esteem, it builds communities, and it builds lives. It creates paths where p

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The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

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This maze is laid out such that should you step through the correct path, by its end you will have l

Author: Catherynne M. Valente
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There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we

Author: Ernst Haas
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A bird only conquers the sky when it has mastered enough courage to lose sight of the ground.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate

Author: Albert Einstein
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You can’t has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours.

Author: Wil Wheaton
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...we can love someone without understanding that person.

Author: Dorothy Rowe
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Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even

Author: Lee Ellis
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If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy.

Author: Abhijit Naskar
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These galleries are hung, mostly, with images from 'Frog and Toad,' and he moves from each to each,

Author: Hanya Yanagihara
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A man cannot be aware of his destination without the help of his creator

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There had stood a great house in the centre of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of

Author: William Hope Hodgson
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If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extensio

Author: Susan Sontag
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-the apartment had been directly in the sight line of a Serb sniper across the river. Teta-Jozefina

Author: Aleksandar Hemon
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But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wi

Author: Hilary Mantel
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to mak

Author: Joseph Conrad
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He spends so much time in the sand trap you'd think he was in the cast of Baywatcb.

Author: Tim Conway
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Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem a way of standing

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Merciful Heavens! but what do I care for the laws of nature and arithmetic, when, for some reason I

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history. Knitting

Author: Anne Bartlett
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Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current

Author: Wayne Gerard Trotman
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We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years

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Bad governments always lie because telling the truth requires honour and courage!

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #337952

There are no such things as secrets only truths that have yet to be revealed.

Author: Ziad K. Abdelnour
Quote #409424

When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.

Author: George Cabot Lodge
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The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature'

Author: Criss Jami
Quote #287187

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That'

Author: Jay-Z
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.And be it gash or gold it will not comeAgain in this identic

Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Quote #26681

Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.

Author: Sharon Salzberg
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I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself.

Author: Leigh Hershkovich
Quote #342034

It's time to leave, though i've never really been arrived.

Author: Siska Astriana
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Gansey clucked at his bedraggled reflection in the dark-framed mirror hanging in the front hallway.

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
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That’s great, Grace, but in case you’ve forgotten, we’re supposed to kill vampires, not play nice an

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Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fi

Author: Wendy Kopp
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He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

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Quote #191687

Trust is the residue of promises fulfilled.

Author: Frank Navran
Quote #136049

Make up your mind! Whom you shall serve?

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I could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.

Author: Robin Hobb
Quote #91599

The world is full of beauty; to find it, just look for it.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worshi

Author: Diane Ackerman