"Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever.[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]"
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"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words."
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"The strong survive."
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"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates."
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"Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives."
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"There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow."
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"It is strange how love is a source for power––can spur the desire to fight to the death, or to fight back from something that seems like death for long enough to write a coherent note––but also of weakness."
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"In the midst of wanting to be powerful, I found a weakness."
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"Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane."
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"From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive"
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"Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens"
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"No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?"
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"Never underestimate the hidden power of one very determined person. There is nothing more powerful than determination and persistence."
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"When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him."
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"The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow."
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"What a curious power words have."
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"Many are called, few are chosen."
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"The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you."
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"Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical laws."
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"Power isn't the big cars and bent slaves Power is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison."
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