I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.― Sharon Salzberg

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Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.

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You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. ― Marilyn Monroe

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

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In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

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I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books — where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas. ― Langston Hughes

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I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade... which I believe is about the proper way to cross a lake.

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You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect. - Charles Spurgeon

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I think it's important for us to believe in one another's capabilities. If I didn't have someone to believe in me, I wouldn't be the individual I am today. Neither would I strive for new territory or new direction or to believe in myself.

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