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"705 Society Quotes

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.
Approval Approved Being Being Yourself
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I'm in a very comfortable place, and some of that comes from the shackles of not having to be what people want you to be.

Comfortable Having People Place
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A lot of times, we believe what the media says about us or what our awards or accolades say about us instead of what God says about us.

About Accolades Awards Believe
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A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

Affect Circumstances Conversation Culture
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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

Approve Call Dislike Heresy
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Around Catalyst Choosing Direction
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Achieve Change Destiny Enable
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It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

Another Better Degree Everyone
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I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

Belief Believe Born Canvas
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Bad Bows Down Earth
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We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Great Great Society Move Only
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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

America Common Democratic Faith
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People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Comfortable Different Evolved Gotten
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.

Both Eyes Jewish Jewish People
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I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

Always Core Desire Existed
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I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

About Along Always Feel
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Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

Accomplish Built Company Connected
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This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

Amaze Bets Big Cycle
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No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Being Come Create Done
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I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.

Get I Think Made Make
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

Doing Matter People Themselves
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Insecurity is bad, it makes you hate people you don't even know.
Insecurity Bad Hate People
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There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.

Anywhere Audience Cameras Contestants
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I will say that when I retire, I will probably do something to help others. I don't know know what it will be... probably I'll get involved in some charity.

Charity Get Help Involved
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I'm living in Beverly Hills. I'm very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I'm blessed.

Beverly Beverly Hills Blessed Every
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Things are more complex today, and I think humor has changed a a great deal. People are more sensitive today.

Changed Complex Deal Great
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
Arisen Essence Out Peace
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Not all public opinion is correct opinion

Public Opinion Correct.All
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Believe Believing Everything God
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
Challenged People Simple Simple Things
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Easy Myth People Publishers
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Age Beginning Enlightenment Modern
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Defend Intervene Liberty Press
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

Also Animals Appear Appearance
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I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Almost Amherst Any Beautiful
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People want to see me fight all sorts of people out there.

Fight Me Out People
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Lagos is a fascinatingly infuriating place that its residents love - and love to hate. Licence plates on cars here proudly display the state motto, 'Centre of Excellence,' in what often seems a sarcastic swipe at the place we live in.

Car Centre Display Excellence
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In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.

Barack Brings Difference Discomfort
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I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

American Black Definition I Think
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When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'

About Also Being Complex
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There are some people who will tell you oil is the greatest thing that ever happened to Nigeria. And there are other people who will tell you it's the worst thing that ever happened.

Ever Greatest Greatest Thing Happened
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It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

How I Can Impact Individual
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I have always been an active part of my community.

Active Always Been Community
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Boy Desk Gross Heart
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We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.
Destroy Development Does Environment
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Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It comes from TV and society.

Biggest Bullied Bullies Bullying
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I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.

Better Everybody Good I Think
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They talk like angels but they live like men.

Angels Like Live Men
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Based Conception Emotional Illusion
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Feel Free Living Only
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