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People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don't need help.

—Glennon Doyle Melton in Warrior

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

—Emmet Fox

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This is your life – not your parents', teachers' or significant other's. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking.

—Jennifer Elisabeth

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

—Edmund Burke

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I've never met anyone that affects me the way you do. I feel like I could conquer the world, bench press a bus, and run a marathon when I'm with you. You make me feel alive and so happy I can't even think straight.

—Marie Coulson in Bound Together

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

—George Bernard Shaw

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What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement [of the adolescent] in the decision making.

—Laurence Steinberg and Ann Levine

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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

—Samuel Johnson

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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

—Frederick Douglass

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Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

—Sidney Sheldon

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A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

—Frederick the Great

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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

—Henry Kissinger

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All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

—Allegra Kent

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

—Hugh Elliott

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Desire creates the power.

—Rebecca West

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