The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. — Alice Walker

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It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.

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I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man. — Joe Biden

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The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

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No one will frighten the large and free Jewish community of the United States. -Menachem Begin

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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. ― Joseph Heller

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So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

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Every single morning since I've been 27 years old, I've got up and someone's handed me a card like the one I have in my pocket with the schedule on it, of all the things I'm gonna do. I don't know what to do if I didn't have that card. — Joe Biden

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I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.

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