Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing — Ram Dass.

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When you’re the absolute best, you get hated on the most. -- Kanye West

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance ― E.E. Cummings

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The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ― Victor Hugo

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

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In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer morning. ― Patrick Carman

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Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved. ― Roy T. Bennett

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My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that. - Will Ferrell

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