If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. ― Epictetus

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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone. ― Epictetus

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Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

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the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

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Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes. — Maggie Kuhn

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to 'speak' to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always 'speaking'. The question is whether we are listening.

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You may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last. ― Kamala Harris

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People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs. - Marianne Williamson

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What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.

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