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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

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There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

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I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

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Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.

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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.

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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.

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Yet it is only love which sets us free.

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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.

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I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

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Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.

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When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.

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Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

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When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest.

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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

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