They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming. ― Hermann Hesse

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Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think. ― Roy T. Bennett

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.

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When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest.

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If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife. ― Malcolm X

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There are conservative people in all colours in America.

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If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. - Hyman Rickover

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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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A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

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