I think, in the future, people are going to look back and say, 'I can't believe that gay and lesbian people had to fight to be able to get married.' - Edy Ganem

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Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. — C.S. Lewis

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Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

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And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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If everything seems to be under control, you’re not going fast enough. ― Mario Andretti

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To find yourself, think for yourself.

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Take a moment and sit with yourself. You may find what you are looking for. ― Steven Cuoco

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While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in the conversations. The tipping points seem to be racing towards us a lot faster than people thought.

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One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires. ― Roy T. Bennett

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