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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography
    tags: evil, good, history, invincibility, tyrants, victory
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    Justin Pyfrom
    “the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell on it. Remember how we live, not how we died.”
    ― Justin Pyfrom, Dimensions: The College Years
    tags: death-of-a-loved-one, lessons-in-life
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    Travis Langley
    “Fiction with its big question of 'what if?' is one of the most powerful forces in the world. Once upon a time, the ability to light a fire was fictitious.”
    ― Travis Langley
    tags: batman, fire
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    Travis Langley
    “Sickos never scare me. At least they’re committed.” —Selina Kyle (Michelle Pfeiffer)”
    ― Travis Langley, Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight
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    Travis Langley
    “When is posttraumatic stress pathological? The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV23 or DSM-IV-TR24)b lays out specific criteria. Criterion A: Trauma. Yes, the event that created Batman (1) involved death or physical danger and (2) horrified the survivor. Criterion B: Persistent re-experiencing. Yes, Bruce re-experiences his parents’ murders through recurrent, vivid recollections and”
    ― Travis Langley, Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight
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    Travis Langley
    “[On the subject of Heath Ledger's Joker] This character who attracts psychotic henchmen may have lingering symptoms from his own past psychosis. He keeps making involuntary, repetitive movements—flicking his tongue, smacking his mouth—which suggest tardive dyskinesia, a condition that arises as a consequence of long-term or high-dosage use of antipsychotic (neuroleptic) medication.”
    ― Travis Langley, Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight
    tags: batman, heath-ledger
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl
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    James Baldwin
    “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
    ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
    tags: fear, hate, pain
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Toni Morrison
    “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Beloved
    tags: freedom, self
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    Toni Morrison
    “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
    ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
    tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight
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    Émile Zola
    “If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
    ― Émile Zola
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    Mala Naidoo
    “Empathy healed the moment. Words were not necessary when compassion created understanding in grief.”
    ― Mala Naidoo, What Change May Come
    tags: being-present, compassion-wisdom, empathy-quotes, supporting-others, understanding-others
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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “Hatred is prevalent on this earth because it requires no real effort, unlike the investment it takes to genuinely understand a person.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
    tags: effortless, getting-to-know-others, hate, hatred, knowing-others, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, understanding-others
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    Eraldo Banovac
    “Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others.”
    ― Eraldo Banovac
    tags: compassion, empathize, life, life-quotes, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, philosophy-quotes, sociology, sociology-quotes, understanding, understanding-others, understanding-quotes
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    Émile Zola
    “When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: criminal-minds, criminal-minds-quotes, emile-zola
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    Simon Baron-Cohen
    “Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.”
    ― Simon Baron-Cohen, Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty
    tags: abuse, anti-social, behaviour, child-abuse, compassion, education, empathy, parenting, personality-disorders, psychology, psychopath, psychopathy, sociopathy, trauma
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: ambition, bullying, character, moral-courage
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    Kamand Kojouri
    “Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.”
    ― Kamand Kojouri
    tags: betray, betrayal, bullies, bully, bullying, burn, cheat, cheater, corrupt, cynical, cynics, dark, darkness, hateful, hostile, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, liar, light, lying, malevolent, malicious, negative, negative-people, negativity, pessimistic, pessimists, spiteful, toxic, toxic-people, toxicity, vengeful, vicious, vindictive
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    Wayne Gerard Trotman
    “People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.”
    ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
    tags: awareness, bullying, confidence, potential, put-downs, quotable, self-confidence, self-esteem
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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