Category: writer
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My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘blackness’ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.
Michelle Obama
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.
Joyce Meyer
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
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I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.
Brene Brown
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides