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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Break Issolation People Spirit Terrorism World
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
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Children Deal Life Self Love Sound
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Action Difficult Fall Love Responsiblity
No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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Black Enough Indeed Women Writing
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Art Belief Elegance Environment Grace Live Reflection
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Bond Commitment Couple Maintain Pain Relationship Response
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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Believe Commitment Each Other Endurance Health Impossible Individual Relationship Sustain
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
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
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Class Dominate Feminism Race Realize Women
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Education Feminism Ideas Movement Understand

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