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Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#humanism #marxism #poetry #rosa-luxemburg #beauty

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#class #countries #door #kind #like

Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the “tribe” will desert us to die a sad, lonely death. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence #self-help

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life. ↗

— Paula Deen

#approach #determined #diabetes #enjoying #i

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#doing #need #others #people #rationalizations

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#anything #art #birth #communication #comparison

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#affliction #anger #bring #change #could

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#also #being #dreams #innermost #into

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#beauty #dreams #ducks #empowerment #fairy-tales

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#could #daughter #evils #first #first time