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Queen Latifah

"You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!"

-- Queen Latifah

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“This is not a problem. Iâ€™m making everybody very calm, distracted by my bad results and then Iâ€™m going to shoot. One good result and Iâ€™m coming back. This is a distraction, itâ€™s the calm before the storm,”
“The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the studentâ€™s inward teacher is ignoredâ€¦ we can speak to the teacher within our students only when we are on speaking terms with the teacher within ourselves.”
“No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.”

Source : Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.20, Harper Collins
“Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.”
“Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.”
“I lived a dangerous life. Stealing cars, I could have been shot. Robbing people, I could have been killed. Nothing in existence holds any terror for me. When I was sentenced to death, it didnâ€™t hold anything for me.”
“Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 194), 1895.
“If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'”

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