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I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.

About Became Empowering Freedom
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The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficent purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.

True leader Effective activity Inspire Wisdom
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There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions – they lead to defeat.

Moving Brewing Ambitious people Wicked
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Enlightened leadership Spiritual Religious dogma
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Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Infuse Life Action Own future
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Collection Platitudes Save Wisdom
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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Green Hardship Pine Stays
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Age Character Construct Does
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Bids Consolation Corner Create
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Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Kingdom Lord Greater God
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

Die Country Fortunate man Death
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Desired Dying Living Sublimity
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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Ultimate wisdom Beginnings Seed Universe
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To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.

See hillside Dogwood bloom Ecstasy Beauty
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Year's end Beginning Wisdom Experience
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A snowdrift is a beautiful thing-if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination

Snowdrift Beautiful thing Lie across Road
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.
Man Wise In quest More wisdom
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Alone Away Blood Children
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The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.

Also Always Bad Doing
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You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.

Born Child Children Dead
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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Community Done Every EveryHeart
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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

About Born Child Does
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When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black. I don't want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

Black Face My Soul See
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The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
Everyone Journey Just Know
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As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Cannot Down Him Hold
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There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

Because Fellow First He
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As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

Actually Fear Give Liberated
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Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

Does Effects Global Go
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Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Anything Going Maturity No-One
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Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Attract Capacity Circumstances Either
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Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

Every EveryTime Finds Form
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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

Dot Landscape Life Romance
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In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.

Awarded Degree Discovery Doctor
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We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world

Adventure Allow Also Any
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Been Done Has-Been Never
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Down Errors Establishing Hunt
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The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

Accept Burden Buy Front
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When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
Does Enemies Everyone Love
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I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Anybody Art Believe Copyright
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A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

Decisions Easier Lot Make
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Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

Intelligent America Enough Anybody
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This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

Culture Kids Raising Surprised
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The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

Best Cause Damage Done
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I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.

Relate Woman Found Something
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Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

Art Freedom Gives Make
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I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

Adult Around Become Began
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Freedom can never be given. Freedom is a decision taken by the oppressed against their oppressor.

Freedom Decision Oppressed Oppressor
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When you don’t like yourself as an African, you can never like another Africa brother or sister.

When you Like yourself Never Brother
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We can’t keep celebrating the commercialism of our existence without embracing the sacrifice for our freedom.

Keep celebrating Commercialism Embracing
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When you have powerful voices with moral authority, if they put issues in the right place at the right time, then the world will listen – and do something about it.

Powerful voice Authority World
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