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• The last couple of years were hell. Like, I can't even tell you, it was so hard. I didn't know how to handle it. But I think I'm in a much better place now, because I stepped away for a second and took a breath. Hollywood is a funny place. It offers so much, but it can also take a lot away from you.

  Cameron Diaz

  Couple, Thinking, Years

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

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• I've never been a major smoker, but I think America's view on weed is ridiculous. I mean - are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Weed, Mean, Thinking

  "Missundaztood': Pink vs. President Bush" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 11, 2007.

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• If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Weed, Would Be, World

  "'Missundaztood': Pink vs. President Bush" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 11, 2007.

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• I think I just want to leave my mark in some way. I hope I leave the world a better place than it was when I came, and I think the best way I can do that is through acting and writing, and hopefully it will make a difference someday.

  Chris Colfer

  Writing, Thinking, Differences

  "Glee – Prying information from Chris Colfer at a party". Interview with Judy Sloane, filmreviewonline.com. September 8, 2012.

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• Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

  William McDonough

  Business, Optimistic, People

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• A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a better place.

  Bill Ford

  Inspiring, Doe, World

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• We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes the world a better place to live.

  Pope John Paul II

  Respect, Responsibility, Rights

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• I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all.

  Liam Neeson

  Children, World, Causes

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• You have to work and think about how we can make this world a better place for all. This is what I'd really like to ask our young leaders. We will try as leaders of today to minimise the problems which we will hand over to you. But it is to you. You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Thinking, Hands, Leader

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• We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Commitment, Opportunity

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• You might not believe it...but you make the world a better place when you smile.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, World, Might

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Humanity, Promise

  "Unemployment". Winston Churchill's speech at Kinnaird Hall in Dundee, Scotland (October 10, 1908), as quoted in Winston Churchill "Liberalism and the Social Problem" (p. 87), 1909.

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• You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.

  Max Lucado

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Needs

  Max Lucado (2009). “Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition”, p.51, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)

  Taylor Swift

  Would Be, World, Ifs

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• The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

  Tom Clancy

  World, Do The Best, Presses

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.218, Penguin

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• Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Powerful, Thinking, People

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• I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

  Rosa Parks

  Growing Up, Believe, People

  "The Meaning of Life: Reflections in Words and Pictures on Why We Are Here". Book by David Friend, 1991.

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• Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Dog, Keys, Bars

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Tell Me Lies”, p.353, Macmillan

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• I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!

  Isabel Allende

  Children, War, Mean

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Kindness, People

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday... He consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.

  Colum McCann

  Real, Light, Darkness

  "Let the Great World Spin". Book by Colum McCann, 2009.

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• If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

  Michael Jackson

  Peace, Looks, World

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• Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heartbreak, Hope, Lost Love

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• Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Dream, Victory

  "Reaction to Obama elected 1st black US president", www.foxnews.com. November 5, 2008.

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