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The needs of a society determine its ethics.

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In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

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Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

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This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

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We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.

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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

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Age is nothing; waking up is everything.

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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

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Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

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Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We are our brothers and sisters

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I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves.

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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

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If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

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The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

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Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

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Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

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