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As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
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Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.
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People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.
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Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.
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I'm leaning towards making something for kids nine and under because I have kids now. I can clean it up and make it rated G.
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The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.
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He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter.
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When you doubt yourself you create something better.
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By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
