As in all areas, we can improve how good we are at loving another person.
Alain de Botton
Recitation: by Male by Female
My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
Joe Biden
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In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.
John Bolton
BestPotentialViewDoneDecide
I don't believe every download is a lost sale.
Jeff Tweedy
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My name is actually Mia Gypsy - my mum said she named me that because of everywhere I'm from. She felt that I'd always be roaming from place to place, and I've always felt like that.
Mia Goth
MeNamePlaceSaidSheAlways
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.
Riz Ahmed
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The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.
Rita Moreno
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I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.
Alice Englert
LifeTimeMyselfSchoolGrowing Up
I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.
Alice McDermott
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I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.
Philip Roth
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One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.
Pope Benedict XVI
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When something is heartwarming and triumphant, and not corny or preachy, it's such a powerful thing.
Perfume Genius
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