“I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.”
— Angela Davis
Author: Angela Davis
Category: work
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“In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.”
— Karen Hughes
Author: Karen Hughes
Category: mom
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“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”
— Karl Marx
Author: Karl Marx
Category: society
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“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
— Barry Switzer
Author: Barry Switzer
Category: sports
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“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
— J. K. Rowling
Author: J. K. Rowling
Category: power
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“To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.”
— Henry Drummond
Author: Henry Drummond
Category: love
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“Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.”
— Corin Nemec
Author: Corin Nemec
Category: life
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“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: wisdom
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“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.”
— Charles Babbage
Author: Charles Babbage
Category: knowledge
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“You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.”
— Natalie Portman
Author: Natalie Portman
Category: religion
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“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.”
— Albert Camus
Author: Albert Camus
Category: music
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