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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them

Love Image Perfect Potential
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Dark Mind Once Again
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A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Attitude Bless Talent Heart
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I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.

People Tools Help Guide
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The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.

Mistake People Important Comfortable
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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

Music Love Profound Jazz
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We'd done a couple of road trips with my big chair, and it was such a hassle if we didn't have the van with the foldout ramp. I figured: There's got to be some option that I can use on the go. Now I can go anywhere with my friends, which is a big, life-changing thing. I can sit on it for as long as I need to.

Couple Long Road trips Hassle
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My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash.

Accessible Experience Traveling Abroad
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Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.

Need Lost Wheelchair Technically
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I feel a lot of personal responsibility to undo the negative stereotypes. I know that it's not coming from a bad place. It's coming from an ignorant place. I can sort of be an ambassador in a subtle way to say,

Struggle Responsibility Living Ignorant
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Unique Culture Single Mold
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I didn't feel like I was putting anything good into the world, even though it was funny. I wanted to do something more positive that would have an impact. So even when I'm doing naked push-ups or whatever, it's astounding to see how people respond to it.

Impact People Naked Astounding
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The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

Demon Disability Personal Sabotage
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If it weren't for the fact that all of us are slightly abnormal there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Fact Separate Point Abnormal
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Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.

Want Way Disability Call
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At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?

Topic Human Hope Concrete
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

Over Career Unlike Life
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don’t have one.

Plan About More Paranoid
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.

Myself Sweeter Play Dumber
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Wisdom Become Depend Believe
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.

Christmas Carol Five Auditioned
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

Famous Could Remember Long
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Often Art All Sometime
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Love Bread Sit Stone
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I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed... I was the guy... telling them to 'get the hell out and have a magical day.

Magical Basically Disney World
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The world was hard and fierce, but it also contained tomato sandwiches, and if that didn’t make it a world worth living in, your standards were unreasonably high.

World Standard High Fierce
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My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

Instilled Parents Sense Condition
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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

Figure Natural Same Rate
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

Chance Notion Lead Overcome
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The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...

State Born Freedom Assume
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.

Taste Key Done Good
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Change Keep Intact Root
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way

Choose Human Own Attitude
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

Long Day Smile Everyone
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It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

Easy Faith Winner Discipline
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Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does.

Race Beautiful Young Hope
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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Endurance Fortune Come Bad
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Freedom. Mind Gate Lock
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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Crime Not Nut Consist
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One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

Promise Fulfill Fool Understand
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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.

Else Eye Way See
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Ago Long Time Shade
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

Spend People Impress Like
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Tell Teach Explain Great
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

Relationship Parents Lithium Great
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Raise Voice Afraid Truth
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

Medical People Mental Health
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Action Bring Always But
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

Myself Weird Conversation Kind
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The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.

Bore Music Heart Long
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