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I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

Also Any Arms Certainly
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Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Understanding Overcome Situation Mysterious
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Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

About Angry Answer Arms
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Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.

Back Best Branch Gives
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The pinnacle of the fulfillment I can ever experience for my spirit and soul is to hear from the Lord, when I see Him face to face, 'Well done my good and faithful servant.'

Done Ever Experience Face
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Money can't heal your heart. Money can't give you purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want peace. I don't want arms and legs, I want to be a miracle for someone else.

Arms Else Give Heal
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I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.

Environmentalist Believe Mankind Nature
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Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.

Nobody Pin Speculate
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

About Always Learn Relationship
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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Conductor Conductors Eight I Can
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Almost Call Colored Every
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I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

Love Clutching Appreciate Judging
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It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.

Family Microcosm World Understand
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I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.

Excited You Get
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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Feeling Flourish Atmosphere Individual
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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Believe Greatest Conceive Heard
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I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Thought Rational Dictatorship American
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Popular Propaganda Pressure Helpless
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Education Self-fulfilment Environment Explore
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Increase Drug Crime Immigrants
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Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Resistance Detest Reality Hegemony
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Human Language Phenomenon Analogue
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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

Time Grew Camps Know
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But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

Being Camp First Out
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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

Share Part Life People
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'Work while it is day...for the night comes when no man can work' I find myself thinking about how profoundly deep this statement is

Work Day Night Thinking
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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

Season Series Close Movies
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Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.

Time War Difficult Hot
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The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial.

Trial Law Crime Process
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The best way to get people to connect with an issue is to humanize it. You can do so much more powerfully with music and touch the heart.

Best Connect Heart Issue
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I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what contex.

People Change Bones Cell
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Would-be terrorists cannot so much as board a plane without a thorough screening, yet we give them nearly unfettered access to very dangerous weapons.

Weapons Access Nearly Plane
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You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

Played Development Result
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In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society.

Truly Equal Laws Fired
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It's important for all Americans to know how vulnerable our Constitution is.

Know Our How Important
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We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
Believe Learn
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I've been an activist since my late teens. I take this very seriously and try to use the gift that's been given to me - access to the media - as positively as I can.

Access Activist Been Gift
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It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great American stage of Broadway. In fact, I've dedicated much of the latter half of my life to ensuring the story of the internment is known.

Known Story Life Fact
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I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
I Me
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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Amazing Notions Ordinary OrdinaryPeople
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

Cannot Think You
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The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.

Gift Hear Touch Person
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Done How Map Somewhere
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If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

Go Heat Stand Summer
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
Believing Faith God Knowing
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You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Action Cannot Table Where
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A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

Companies Corporation Doing Employees
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Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
Ask Man Knows
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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Good Money Check
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Some salesmen think that selling is like eating—to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook—he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry.

Salesman Selling Satisfy
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