We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

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The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. If you go through a weekly Monday through Friday, it's all there. It's in how people on the sitcoms and cop shows talk to each other. — Bill Cosby

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Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

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Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

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I have over a hundred wigs, I like to change them damn near every hour.- Megan Thee Stallion

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If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies. ― Jamie Leanne Gaines

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ― Robert A. Heinlein

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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future. - Daisaku Ikeda

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