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“Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.”
Source : June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, Beacon Pr
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“Surely it is worthwhile to lay ourselves out with all our might in promoting the cause and kingdom of Christ.”
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“I started a modeling agency and I had it for about five and a half years and it was the same time I was actually working with the WWE and doing SmackDown. It was really the same principles; because me growing up I didn't have the support, I wasn't told, yes you can do that; you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it.”
Source : Interview with Mike Furci, www.bullz-eye.com. December 12, 2008.
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“A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.”
Source : Randolph Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.111, Univ of California Press
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“Things that are impossible just take longer.”
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“When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?”
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“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
Source : John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co
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“Spend at least an hour today giving your fullest gift, whatever that is for today, so that when you go to sleep at night you know you couldn't have lived your day with more courage, creativity, and giving.”