Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

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That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them. -Fannie Lou Hamer

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But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.

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Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.

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Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world

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Be yourself, that’s what makes the world go round!

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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

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When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world. — Norman Vincent Peale

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Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

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'Rigoletto' has long been one of my favorite operas, and it was on my short list way back when I first talked to Peter Gelb. I started thinking about what I could bring to this masterpiece, which has been seen all over the world for so many years.- Michael Mayer

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