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G K Chesterton: Rather startling
“I do not generally agree with those who find rain depressing. A shower-bath is not depressing; it is rather startling. And if it is exciting when a man throws a pail of water over you, why should it not also be exciting when the gods throw many pails?” —G K Chesterton.
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Cory Booker: Patriotism
“Patriotism is love of country. But you can’t love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don’t always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.” —Cory Booker.
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Stendhal: Does not matter
“If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.” —Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (23 Jan 1783-1842).
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Langston Hughes: When you turn the corner
“When you turn the corner / And you run into yourself / Then you know that you have turned / All the corners that are left.” —-Langston Hughes, poet and novelist (1 Feb 1902-1967).
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Jean-Paul Sartre: Words wreak havoc
“Words wreak havoc when they find a name for what had up to then been lived namelessly.” – Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Whoopi Goldberg: Showing off
“Now, I’ve always known that there were bullies in the world. We’ve seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks… show off. To me, that’s what bullying is, showing off. It’s…
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Jordan L Hawk: Fawning sycophants
“Bullies like him were only strong while assured of victory; when faced with anyone more powerful, they turned into fawning sycophants, desperate to prove themselves.” —Jordan L. Hawk.
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Criss Jami: Young outcast
“A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.” —Criss Jami.
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Heather Brewer: Horrible thing
“Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.” —Heather Brewer.
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Kwame Alexander: Being afraid is normal
“Bullies don’t like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear.” —Kwame Alexander.
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Mehak Bhalla: Getting bullied
“Getting bullied in school taught me how to be strong, getting judged taught me to be better, failure taught me to be resilient and being made fun of taught me humility.” —Mehak Bhalla.
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Andrew Vachss: Endangered species
“Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.” —Andrew Vachss.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman: Quite aware of your potential
“People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.” —Wayne Gerard Trotman.
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Taylor Swift: Be yourself even more
“If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.” —Taylor Swift.
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G K Chesterton: Scandal
“Scandal means scandal, what it originally meant in Greek and Latin: the tripping up of somebody else when he is trying to be good.” —G K Chesterton.
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Christopher Dawson: Religion and culture
“A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Billie Eilish: Strong perspectives
“In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.” —Billie Eilish.
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Artie Lange: Drinking in moderation
“The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don’t drink in moderation.” —Artie Lange.
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Fr. Ronald Knox: Set of truths
“Modernism assumes that the truths of the Christian religion, instead of being a set of truths handed down once for all, which it is the duty of the Church to maintain and to teach, are in some way dependent on, and capable of being revised by, the ordinary Christian believer.” —Fr. Ronald Knox.
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Joseph Sobran: Partial-Birth abortion
“Partial-Birth abortion, as it’s called, is so nakedly nasty that you marvel that anyone could defend it: the child’s brain is sucked out, its skull crushed, on the verge of birth. Both sides agree on one thing: it follows from the very logic of legitimating abortion.” —Joseph Sobran.
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Clark Gable: Extra dividend
“It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you’ve fallen in love with.” —Clark Gable.
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Joyce Brothers: Family happinesses
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.” —Joyce Brothers, psychologist.
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G K Chesterton: Madman’s cell
“A church all to oneself is not a church at all. It is a madman’s cell.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Male peculiarity
“The desire to meet and argue for hours is a male peculiarity.” —G K Chesterton.
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Jeffrey Benjamin: Higher ground
“You will never reach higher ground if you are always pushing others down.” —Jeffrey Benjamin.
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Jay Asher: Take responsibility
“When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.” —Jay Asher.
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Lynette Mather: Only surgeon
“What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?” —Lynette Mather.
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Rebecca Black: Stop bullying
“Stop bullying. No one deserves to feel worthless.” —Rebecca Black.
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Shay Mitchell: Bully who’s insecure
“I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It’s the bully who’s insecure.” —Shay Mitchell.
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Abraham Lincoln: Evil somebody
“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.” —Abraham Lincoln.
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Jessie J: Because of how they are
“They’re not bullying you because of you,they’re bullying you because of how they are.” —Jessie J.
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Zack W Van: Rare occurrence
“Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It’s a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.” —Zack W. Van.
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Unknown: Sign of weakness
“Bullying is cruel so don’t act like a fool. Meanness is a sign of weakness.” —Unknown.
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Mary Elizabeth William: Considerable strength and character
“The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person.” —Mary Elizabeth William.
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Ogden Nash: Paid more
“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.” —-Ogden Nash.
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Charlie Munger: Simple, old-fashioned discipline
“We have this simple, old-fashioned discipline, which Warren likens to Ted Williams waiting for a fat pitch. I don’t know about Warren, but if you said to me, ‘Charlie, you can go into the business of managing money the way other people do, where you’re measured against indexes and you got consultants choosing consultants that…
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Warren Buffett: Intrinsic value
“Intrinsic value is terribly important and very fuzzy, and we do our best to work…in the kind of businesses where we think that…our predictions are of a fairly highly probable nature. And that leaves out all kinds of companies.” —Warren Buffett.
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Joseph Sobran: Obvious lie
‘Though abortion — including the killing of viable infants at the verge of birth — is now a sacrament of the Democratic Party, nobody admits to being “pro-abortion”; they are “pro-choice.” This is an obvious lie. The right to choose anything presupposes the right to live.’ —Joseph Sobran.
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C S Lewis: Good rule
“It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” — C.S. Lewis.
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Justin Timberlake: Get over it
“Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.” —Justin Timberlake.
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Nancy Reagan: What is there to see?
“Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that’s supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It’s what you don’t see that’s attractive.” —Nancy Reagan.
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Rita Mae Brown: Made for losers
“Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful – It’s made for the losers.” —Rita Mae Brown.
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Malcolm Muggeridge: Depraves and corrupts
“How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.” —Malcolm Muggeridge.
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Seneca: Without an opponent
“I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.” —Seneca.
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G K Chesterton: Rule rather than represent
“This is the age of minorities; of groups that rule rather than represent.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Thrives on persecution
“Christianity is fighting for its existence, but it is always fighting for its existence. It thrives on persecution.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Transparency
“Transparency doesn’t mean sharing every detail. Transparency means always providing the context for our decisions.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Cash is the default option
“We’re not really ever positioning ourselves. We’re simply trying to do the smartest thing we can every day when we come to the office. And if there’s nothing smart to do, cash is the default option.” –Warren Buffett.
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Gary Thomas: Wives less beautiful
“We can’t fill up our eyes with our wives if our eyes have been previously filled with someone else. One of the many dangers of porn is that it neurologically trains us to find our wives less beautiful.” —Gary Thomas.
