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We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

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I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth

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It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

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Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

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To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.

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Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

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Yet it is only love which sets us free.

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If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

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When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

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I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

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I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?".

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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

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Have enough courage to love.

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Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

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Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you...

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I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

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The truth will lead me to all.

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