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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.

Michelle Obama

We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Change Patience Plant See
just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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Different Thinking Yourself
a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
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Alone Happiness Marriage Private Quiet
I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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Change Goal Inspirational Myself Person
Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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Person Rich Satisfaction
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Education Student
It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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Challenge Change Easy Feeling Justice
The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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Hurt Myself Person Understand
Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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Feeling Goodness Hurt Relationship Right
The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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Control Lesson Life Yourself
For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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Family Goal Live Marriage Myself
He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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Business Himself Mindset Problem See World
When they go low, we go high.
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Inspirational One Liner Success
For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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Achievement End Growth Journey Myself See
It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Hard Time Pain Success
there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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Effort Limitation Reward

Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.

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