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Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves.
Sheena Iyengar
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
Patricia Schroeder
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Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.
Arvid Carlsson
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.


Lucretia Mott
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The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'
Joel Salatin
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.


Paulo Coelho
I certainly think that we can take steps to prevent this kind of weapon that is designed to create mass casualties from getting into the hands of the wrong people while still protecting the Second Amendment rights of the people of New Hampshire and making sure that we're protecting the ownership and use of legitimate hunting rifles.
Maggie Hassan
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Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.


Jon Johansen
Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.
David Suzuki
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Nature has always had more force than education.


Voltaire
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Nicolas Chamfort
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.
Donald Rumsfeld
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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
Leo Buscaglia
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Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.


Evelyn Waugh
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Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.
Kesha
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John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.


Howard Hawks
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My freshman year of high school, I started wrestling, and I ended up loving it more than anything I'd ever done.
Miesha Tate
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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Ernest Gaines
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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison
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