Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

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Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

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I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

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I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.

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If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore. — Michele Ruiz

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Don't live in a world of 'I never should have'. Regret is a terrible burden to carry through life. It stoops your shoulders and keeps you looking down at the ground rather than up at the stars. ― Mary Alice Kruesi

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