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One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
Michelle Obama

Yourself, True, Negative

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela

Strength, Talent, Endurance

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why, Broken, Reason

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher

Political, Single, Means

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage, Himself, Betrayed

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle

Men, Respect, Democracy

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

Writing, Through, Write

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
Angelina Jolie

Good, Crazy, Sexy

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama

Life, Hope, History

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle

Hope, Youth, Deceived

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.
Michael Jordan

Life, Good, True

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
Michael Jordan

Yourself, Focus, Game

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem

Past, Person, Black

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
Kurt Cobain

Feelings, Fish, Eat

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Johnny Depp

Pretty, Try, Confusion

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle

God, Society, Live

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Women, Deep, Why

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon

Great, Mind, Reality

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby

Funny, Humor, God

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John Lennon

Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu

Love, Great, Courageous

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu

Eat, Hungry, Authority

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle

Life, Happiness, Power

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela

Black, Whether, White

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Why, Reason

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
Michael Jordan

Yourself, Live, High

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Often, Accept, Idea

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Lois Wyse

Mother, True, Children

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers

Happen, Both, House

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

Pain, Reality, Enjoy

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