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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

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Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

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If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. ↗

— Confucius

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Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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