Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

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Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

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There are conservative people in all colours in America.

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Remind yourself of what you’ve been able to overcome. All the times you felt like you weren’t going to make it though, you proved yourself wrong. You’re more powerful than you think. ― Ash Alves

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It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. ― Malcolm X

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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man. ― Malcolm X

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They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite ― Cassandra Clare

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Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine.

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I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has far exceeded the woman who was the Olympic champion

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