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June Jordan

June Jordan

All of Western tradition, from

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.
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Emeasoba George

Emeasoba George

I do inspire/motivate you/the world/posterity

I do inspire/motivate you/the world/posterity ahead not just for pleasure. But rather, I do inspire/motivate just to hearten you/the world/posterity ahead i.e. I do inspire/motivate in order to encourage you, make you hopeful, more cheerful and confident. That's just why I do inspire/motivate you/the world/posterity ahead. And guess what? I'm proud of that/glad for that.
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Jack Handey

Jack Handey

I believe in making the

I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
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June Jordan

June Jordan

The purpose of polite behavior

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
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June Jordan

June Jordan

To rescue our children we

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.
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Emeasoba George

Emeasoba George

What/All it takes to leave

What/All it takes to leave the world better than it was met is nothing else but passion/determination.
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

We can be negative and

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wired to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.
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Justice Calo Reign

Justice Calo Reign

#RockBottom is wherever you are

#RockBottom is wherever you are when you decide to start reaching for the stars again! #NBL
Justice Calo Reign

Justice Calo Reign

Sometimes it really is worth

Sometimes it really is worth it to look at yourself in the mirror and earnestly ask yourself...#isthatthebestyougot?
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Emeasoba George

Emeasoba George

If you've been counting on

If you've been counting on humans all these while. Desist from doing that. I mean, never count wholly on any human. Rather, count wholly/only on God almighty. Because humans can fail/dissappoint you even when you least expect it from them. But on the other hand, God cannot fail you. For, he's too faithful to fail/disappoint anyone (Hebrews 11 : 11). As a matter of fact, he (God) has never failed those who were before you like Abraham, Moses, Joshua among others. And so, likewise he (God) can't fail you. Moreover, God is always ready to go extra mile just to prove his faithfulness unlike humans.
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W. Wirt

W. Wirt

He is a great simpleton

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
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Justice Calo Reign

Justice Calo Reign

Wouldn't it be nice if

Wouldn't it be nice if Love, Joy and #PEACE hounded you the way negativity does? You might actually make different decisions in life.
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Justice Calo Reign

Justice Calo Reign

Sexism is #bigotryPRIME. All others

Sexism is #bigotryPRIME. All others are born of it.
John Milton

John Milton

What does not destroy me

What does not destroy me makes me strong
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Justice Calo Reign

Justice Calo Reign

Failures are trickling springs that

Failures are trickling springs that feed into rivers of success, if only you keep creating.
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Cathy Ladman

Cathy Ladman

My parents only had one

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.
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Andres Bello

Andres Bello

Por la corrupción del lenguaje

Por la corrupción del lenguaje empiezan otras muchas corrupciones..." "By the corruption of language many other corruptions begin ...
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Justice Calo Reign

Justice Calo Reign

LGBT members of society need

LGBT members of society need not prove their legitimacy but only live significant lives that bring us all together.
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Justice Calo Reign

Justice Calo Reign

The purpose of #wealth is

The purpose of #wealth is to #heal and not to #hoard. In your selfishness with your wealth you renounce your claim to it.
Jack Handey

Jack Handey

Whenever you read a good

Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.
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Aviv Geffen

Aviv Geffen

We're a fucked up generation

We're a fucked up generation
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Justice Calo Reign

Justice Calo Reign

There would be no energy

There would be no energy crisis if man knew how to effectively utilize the power inside of women!
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

This is all you have.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
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Volodymyr Knyr

Volodymyr Knyr

You don't need an iron

You don't need an iron fist if you aren't a pacifist.
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