Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool. ― Emm Cole

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I don't feel like I'm in competitive with anybody. If I'm worried about beating somebody else, I'm not going to be the best version of me. It shouldn't be a competition because somebody else winning is not going to make me lose. -Megan Thee Stallion

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I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself. — Beyoncé

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Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom. ― Matshona Dhliwayo

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The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. -Jimmy Carter

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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.- Jimmy Carter

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Do your thing and don't care if they like it. — Tina Fey

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When swept out of its normal channel, life scatters into innumerable streams. It is difficult to foresee which it will take in its treacherous and winding course. Where today it flows in shallows like a rivulet over sandbanks, so shallow that the shoals are visible, tomorrow it will flow richly and fully.

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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.― Aeschylus

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