We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.

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When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

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For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather. ― Emma Donoghue

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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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The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

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I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

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It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. ― Anne Frank

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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.— Bernard Baruch, financier

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You do not find the happy life. You make it. – Camilla Eyring Kimball

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