I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

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‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

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When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. — Nelson Mandela

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Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

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No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

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One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.

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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. - Tadao Ando

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Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something.

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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

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Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom. - Cornel West

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