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#Talking Quotes #People Quotes #Joy Quotes

“If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.”
“Iâ€™m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. Itâ€™s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, â€˜Donâ€™t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.â€™”
“If we dedicate ourselves over and over again to the goal of climbing one peak to the next...resisting the urge to become discouraged by the task-every one of us can become a high achiever.”
“Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to impose their policy preferences on society. In fact, no radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And with each Supreme Court term, we hold our collective breath hoping the justices will do no further damage, knowing full well they will disappoint. Such is the nature of judicial tyranny.”
“It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.”
“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.”
“I wasn't good at sports and I needed a way to make girls like me.”
“80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.”

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