Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. — Dalai Lama

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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. — Ralph Washington Sockman

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A goal without a plan is just a wish. ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Instead of wishing things would change, I'm asking God for His strength to make a change.

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If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

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I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

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Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. — Angela Davis

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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

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We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. — Marie Curie

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Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands. ― bell hooks

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