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    John Lennon
    “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, fear, life, love
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    Norman Mailer
    “I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
    ― Norman Mailer
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    Norman Mailer
    “Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”
    ― Norman Mailer
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    Norman Mailer
    “There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.”
    ― Norman Mailer
    tags: life
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    Norman Mailer
    “One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.”
    ― Norman Mailer
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    Norman Mailer
    “The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.”
    ― Norman Mailer
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    Norman Mailer
    “Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”
    ― Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself
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    Norman Mailer
    “The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture”
    ― Norman Mailer
    tags: truth
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    Jenny Holzer
    “SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.”
    ― Jenny Holzer
    tags: got-milk, jenny-holzer, milk, personality-tests, survival
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  • #10
    Jenny Holzer
    “Boredom makes you do crazy things.”
    ― Jenny Holzer
    tags: all-too-true
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    Jenny Holzer
    “Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.”
    ― Jenny Holzer
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    Jenny Holzer
    “You confuse me with something that is in you. I will not predict how you want to use me.”
    ― Jenny Holzer
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  • #13
    “It takes no compromise to give people their rights...it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.”
    ― Harvey Milk
    tags: equality, gay, gay-rights
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    Bill Maher
    “Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake--you know, to send the right message to kids.”
    ― Bill Maher, New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
    tags: gay, gay-rights
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    Ron Paul
    “You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group.”
    ― Ron Paul
    tags: bill-of-rights, civil-rights, equal-rights, freedom, gay-rights, liberty, politics, rights, womens-rights
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    Alex Sanchez
    “The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.”
    ― Alex Sanchez
    tags: be-yourself, gay-rights, inspirational
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.”
    ― W Somerset Maugham
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Ghandi
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    David Foster Wallace
    “The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
    tags: comformism, difference, individuality, isolation, suicide
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    Brené Brown
    “Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.”
    ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
    tags: addiction, anxiety, depression, healthy-striving, life, life-paralysis, perfectionism, success
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  • #24
    Audre Lorde
    “The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: feminism, inequality, power
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    Audre Lorde
    “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: change, civil-rights, discrimination, equality, fear, homophobia, political, prejudice, racism
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    Audre Lorde
    “It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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  • #27
    Nelson Mandela
    “Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: education
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    Nelson Mandela
    “It was ANC policy to try to educate all people, even our enemies: we believed that all men, even prison service warders, were capable of change, and we did our utmost to try to sway them.”
    ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
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    Nelson Mandela
    “It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.”
    ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
    tags: education, prejudice, racism, science
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