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BRUCE GORDON
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Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'En... JOHN BOEHNER
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The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL
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ABBY NILES What Erica did, she's been capable of that all year. I think she is getting comfortable playing for ...
JODIE KING
We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for anothe... VERONICA ROTH
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BRENT HINTZ I am very proud to claim Mrs. Parks as a resident of Michigan and to help lead the effort to honor h...
VERNON EHLERS
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough ... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
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MARIE-SUZANNE LABELLE (A.K.A MARIE-SUE)
When she fucked up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified. into paralysis, she collapsed... JOHN GREEN
if it doesn't come bursting out of youin spite of everything,
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unless it...
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BARBARA YOKOM
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There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you... DAVID LETTERMAN
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ANDREA DOMINGO I knew that once I could break her rhythm a little bit and keep getting enough balls back that event...
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It's a bleak morning for me and for many people and yet it's a great morning because we have a chanc... MAYA ANGELOU She's a great student. She is in our Project Think and is just a real hard worker and well liked by ...
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Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone SUZY KASSEM There are so many different ways to lead. The most important thing is to be genuine. To have people ...
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She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was im... JODI LYNN ANDERSON
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JOEY TALLADINO
Rosa Parks was the inspiration... simply by the act of her being who she was, a sweet and loving and... ANDREW YOUNG
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who d... BLAISE PASCAL
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for i... HENRY FORD
So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We... JOHN GREEN
Now it so happens in the world that opposed to characters of such persons as he there are characters... VINCENT VAN GOGH
In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of f...
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The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone,... TERRY PRATCHETT
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It was the morning when she went confront my father's killer. I asked her why she wouldn't let one o... SHERRILYN KENYON
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