When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street. - Cornel West

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You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.

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Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. — Jules Renard

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It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. — Mignon McLaughlin

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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

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The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

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