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• No one has the right to criticize you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I've learned from experiencing this exact kind of criticism is that no one else can label your body except for you. No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren't invited there by you. So please do me this one favor: Don't let their ugly words into your beautiful mind.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Mind, Criticism

  "Taylor Swift's Heartwarming Message To Bullied Fan Will Literally Bring You To Tears" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2015.

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• Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind from you. What He wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Sacrifice, Helping Others, Ideas

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.24, e-artnow

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• We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

  Chris Patten

  Writing, Government, Wish

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• He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

  Carly Simon

  Years, Punishment, Giving

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• I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Stress, Thinking, Income

  "Interview: Jonathan Haidt on Social Conservatives, New Atheists and Civility in Politics". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.

  Isocrates

  Men, Risk, Ends

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Character, Mean, Exercise

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• How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is - it can only be - the vigor of his protest against it.

  Andre Breton

  Men, People, Trying

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• Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Balance

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.162, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind.

  Scott Barry Kaufman

  Inspiration, Mind, Doe

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• Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.

  Joel Osteen

  Trying, Valuable, Please

  Twitter post from Nov 8, 2013

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• This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.

  Jerry Bridges

  Secret, Spirit, Christ

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.98, NavPress

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• By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

  Bernie Siegel

  Intuition, Limits, Instinct

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• If a person claims that he really loves someone, evidence is asked from him. And that evidence is the giving away of possessions, the granting of favors. Just as when Mevlana claimed that he loved me, when I came he granted me thousands of favors and protected me. I regard these all as a grace from God.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Giving, Grace, Granted

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• The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torch bearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.

  J. Christopher Herold

  War, Mistake, Tyrants

  "Napoleon".

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• I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real me, the whole me, the true me.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Real, Heart, People

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• Live life as if its rigged in your favor.

  Rumi

  Live Life, Rigged, Ifs

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• Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.

  Denis Waitley

  Goal, Victory, Details

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• What you really are isn’t loyal to your self. It won’t favor your self. It will turn your self into what you really are.

  John de Ruiter

  Self, Loyal, Turns

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• Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors.
  Count on earning them by hard work
  and perseverance.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Waiting

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• Life is conspiring in your favor. It may not always look that way, but it is, I assure you. Everything that is happening, is happening just the wayit must, in order for you to have the opportunity tocreate the experience of your Self for which you yearn.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Opportunity, Self, Order

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• Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me.

  Pope Francis

  Blessing, Giving, Want

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• A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.

  Bernard Baruch

  Country, Future, Ark

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• Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Simple, Simplicity, Jargon

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• Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.

  Francis Chan

  Light, Color, Profound

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.96, David C Cook

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