I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

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The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

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The more you try to please people, the more they get control of you and you'll end up hurting yourself. ― Chanda Kaushik

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I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.

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In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

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Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

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George W. Bush doesn't care about black people. ― Kanye West

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The realest people don’t have a lot of friends. — Tupac Shakur

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The people don't elect U.S. presidents, God does.

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

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