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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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Complex Demand Integrity Justice Moral Perspective Requirement Right Universe Weight Wrong
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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Book Delicious Divine Ideas Passion Reading Rule Time Truth Wonderful
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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Alone Art Escape Love Self Love Solitude
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Change Hope Ideas Inspirational People
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Believe Ignorance Inspirational Life Women Power
Living simply makes loving simple.
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Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Act Death Life Violence
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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Each Other Love Meaning Relationship
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Color Involvement Judgment Racism Skin Space Thinking
A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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Commitment Love Possible
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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Attention Bond Person Relationship Rescognize Rescouce Romantic
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Book Country Love Writing
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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Agency Beyond Existence Feeling Female Feminism Herself Power She Validation
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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Art Function Imagination Inspirational Possible

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