There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.

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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

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I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.

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A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water. ― Eleanor Roosevelt

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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

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My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

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I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women.

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Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.- David Hare

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