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It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not.
Am Did Dress Every
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Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far.

About Assured Certainly Conduct
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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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Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Born Fear Here Learned
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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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Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Across Because Brushing Cheek
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Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Easy Feel Fill Heart
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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Always Easy Feels Forgive
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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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Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Day House Inspirational Just
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Aid Being Better Better World
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Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.

Aid Alone Any Calm
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I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.

Admirer Day Evening First
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My experiments proved that the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions and that this radiation is an atomic property of the element of uranium.

Atomic Compounds Conditions Determined
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The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
Biological Experiments First France
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I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

Been Career Could Easy
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People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Associate Activity Anyone Behaves
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I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

Appreciated Art Form Imagination
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Let’s approach each other with love, respect, and understanding, the way Nkrumah would ant, the way Sankara would want, the way Fela would want, not with hate like our oppressors.”

Approach Each other Love Respect
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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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As a leader, you have to identify people you can work with and then infect them with your passion.

Leader Identify people Work Passion
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With an education, a girl has the opportunity to write her own future and make informed decisions about her career, body, health, partner and more.

Education Girl Opportunity Own future
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To stand as a role model in your society means working within your society and being able to help those in your society.

Stand Role model Society Help
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If you ever feel shy, withdrawn or feel you’re not enough but believe you really have a lot to give the world. IT IS TIME to be YOUR OWN HERO GET out there.

Feel shy Withdraw Believe Hero
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The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Before Friend Us Wide
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Acts Armed Back Good
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Armor Heavy More Protects
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Agreed Learned Man Me
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

Anyone Cat Considers Dealt
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I like to learn, I’m open to sensible criticism, and I have a lot of respect for people with principles

Learn Sensible Criticism Respect
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Become Changing Conservative Idea
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Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

Crayons Draw Leave Me
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Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

Animals Humans Ink Outline
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There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.
Always Certain Disagree Dislike
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Grip Hand Keep Safe
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Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.
Expecting Me Return Sacrifice
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Does Education Existence Give
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Because Civilized General Having
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

Begin Drinking Fools Makes
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children

America Children Class Classes
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Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous

Bit Even Feeling Just
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The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Am Art Beautiful Dance
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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

Any Blood Importance Learned
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I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

Any Family Know Life
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Author Difficult First Front
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The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

About Actor Age Appropriate
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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

Dogmatic Dread Forward Look
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Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.

Alike Always Father Fell
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Ambitious Anxiety Birds Cage
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