Never allow a person to tell you no, who doesn’t have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

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You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

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I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.

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You cannot save people. You can only love them.

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I’ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I’m not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ― Ernest Hemingway

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Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing. — Linda Hogan

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People can put you down, and they will but Allah will never abandon you, so long as you don’t.

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People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

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