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We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.

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If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

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I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There is so much we can draw understanding from. One of the lessons is the development of courage. Because without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently.

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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

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I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road.

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There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.

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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

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In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote a slim volume called The Prince. In that book he showed the powers that be how to control the people. That book is a statement: separate and rule, divide and conquer. That's five hundred years ago and it still works, because we allow ourselves to be lead around with holes through our noses.

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If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.

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[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

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Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

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Nothing will work unless you do.

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The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.

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I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

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