Sometimes when you're treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe.

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sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people. ― John Henry Newman

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I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

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If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

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Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

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I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way.

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Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

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When the people you love are gone, you're alone.― Keanu Reeves

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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination. ― Thomas Sowell

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