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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
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    Maya Angelou
    “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: beauty, diversity, parents, strength, young-people
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”
    ― Stephen R. Covey
    tags: community, diversity
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    Gene Roddenberry
    “If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.”
    ― Gene Roddenberry
    tags: community, diversity, idic, tolerance
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    “Thank God for immigrants. They're the only ones who have any personality left. They still allow themselves emotions, judgments, and all those qualities that we are "evolving" past. I don't know what they're saying, but I can tell they're speaking honestly.”
    ― Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
    tags: america, american-culture, americans, changing-times, communication, cultural-differences, differences, ethnicity, honesty, immigrant-experience, immigrants, immigration, language, melting-pot, new-york-city, new-yorkers, race, showing-emotion, showing-the-world-who-you-are, united-states
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    Jack London
    “A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
    ― Jack London
    tags: charity, dogs, sharing
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    Mother Teresa
    “Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: charity, christian-behavior, compassion, helping-others, love, paraphrased, service
    451 likes

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    Isabel Allende
    “We only have what we give.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others
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    “A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: administration, capitalism, capitalistic, capitalistic-greed, capitalists, censorship, corporate-gain, corrupt, corruption, defunct, democracy, democratic, dysfunctional, empire, government, government-corruption, greed, greed-corruption, greedy, humanity-quotes, hypocrisy, interests, justice, leadership, money, nation, not-working, people, plutocracy, policies, profit, profit-drive, profitability, profits, rulership, social-system, social-systems, society, system, truth
    43 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “...life allowed to waste like a tap left running.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919
    tags: wasted-life
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    Albert Einstein
    “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adulthood, success, value
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    Sarah Ockler
    “Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”
    ― Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
    tags: crying, death, lost, love, tragedy, weeping
    987 likes

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    Horace Walpole
    “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
    ― Horace Walpole
    tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy
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    Joseph Stalin
    “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
    ― Joseph Stalin
    tags: death, humanity, life, media, statistics, tragedy
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: art, child, face, mother, nature
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