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The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.


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Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.



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She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.



Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.



The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.



We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.



We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.



I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.



We love because it's the only true adventure.

We love because it's the only true adventure.



You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.



Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.





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Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.



The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.



I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.



He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.

He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.



Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.



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Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.



When it comes to killing my sin, I don't wait for the miracle, I act the miracle.

When it comes to killing my sin, I don't wait for the miracle, I act the miracle.



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But I never want to not create something because I'm afraid of what it might say.



The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.




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