The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

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Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.

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Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

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When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.

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A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

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I didn't have any looks, I didn't have any talent, and it was easy for me to say to the Lord, "I don't have anything." If you only knew where I came from ... this leetle-bitty town with no more than twelve hundred people in it. So ... anything I am today, He is the one who has done it [ellipses in source].

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Would America have been America without her Negro people?

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Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. — Albert Einstein

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When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

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