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• These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

  Trey Gowdy

  Years, Priorities, Abuse

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• Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

  Ayn Rand

  Life Changing, Passion, Mean

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

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• Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

  George Lois

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Creativity

  "'Damn Good Advice' From One Of The Real 'Mad Men'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 19, 2012.

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• When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Kindness, Compassion, Acting

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• Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Charlatans

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• Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Modern Life, Wipe

  "What's The Next Big Thing?". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. February 23, 2011.

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• I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

  Pink

  Song, Badass, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

  Pink

  Badass, Attention, Taste

  "Philly girl". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2006.

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• My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

  Pink

  Badass, Dad, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Believe, Men

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To be a feminist is to be alive.

  Margaret Cho

  Feminist, Alive, Ass

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational Life, Memorable, Writing

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• I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Moving On, Letting Go, Moving Forward

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• I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

  Grandma Moses

  Life, Positive, Work

  "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.

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• I call architecture frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Badass, Frozen

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.282

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• Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

  Frank Gehry

  Badass, Talking, Design

  "Home". Book by Kim Johnson Gross, Jeff Stone, and Julie V. Iovine, p. 43, 1993.

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• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

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• I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

  John Cage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Conversing with Cage". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1988.

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  If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

  Julius Caesar

  Military, Law, Political

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• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Art, Exact Sciences

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.440, The Floating Press

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• Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

  John Barrymore

  Atheism, Famous Last Words, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

  Honore de Balzac

  Leadership, Sports, Power

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• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Success, Lying, Military

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• Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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  A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

  Margaret Atwood

  Voice, Silence, Together

  "Margaret Atwood on a voyage to the world's end" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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