This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. —ALICE WALKER
DEMI LOVATO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy...
KURT VONNEGUT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empa...
C. JOYBELL C. A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH [...]How can a great civilization have destroyed itself so completely?"
"Perhaps,"said Apollo, ...
WALTER M. MILLER JR. I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no na...
DAYANANDA SARASWATI Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our ...
SHERYL SANDBERG Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it tog...
SHANE CLAIBORNE We advise people that this city has been destroyed, it has completely been destroyed.
WARREN RILEY It is certainly a completely separate project, and it almost seems like an afterthought. There's no ...
TOM CLARK There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffer...
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred wh...
BARUCH SPINOZA 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON The (Ford Foundation) is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some
DWIGHT MACDONALD FREEDOM AND SLAVERY:
“You can move across the planet without any fear. This is the greatest gift g...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Ali...
HECTOR TOBAR It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about po...
SMILEY BLANTON Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don'...
TEMPLE GRANDIN I think it's wonderful that people have a choice and have the money. But not all people have the mon...
FERGUS CLYDESDALE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, h...
ALAN PATON I like everything you do to me."
"In that case"- he flipped her onto her back again, spre...
NALINI SINGH A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark...
GERI HALLIWELL For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves, ... This is a ...
CARL SAGAN My name is Jasmine Lewis, and this is my story. It’s a cautionary tale about money, sex, and power...
TERESA LO Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infra...
BILL O'REILLY Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Cam restored her clothing slowly, his strong hands lifting her from the beech. Crushing her close, h...
LISA KLEYPAS He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL Money rarely buys happiness. It is options. With no money, no options. With money, where you live, w...
LLOYD HOBBARD-MITCHELL See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS GOD is the ever-active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of cha...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Without them, there wouldn't be this run still. It's just so wonderful that all this money is being ...
BETTY FOX Doing good in this world, and being kind and being honest and noble is really underrated. And I thin...
TOM HIDDLESTON If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.
VERONICA PURCELL At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of ...
DEREK WALL The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're...
YOKO ONO I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John ...
HILLARY CLINTON This is a reflection of my coaches, teammates, my family ? people who have all had influence on me, ...
ALFEE REFT It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
ALBERT CAMUS Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR You have to remember what's most important in life. I am loved by so many people and have a wond...
TROIAN BELLISARIO She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN People here know that this is a special place, ... especially the people who have worked at other st...
LEE UNKRICH You see, it’s about empathy. It’s not about you. It’s about empathy. It’s not even about car...
C. JOYBELL C. When you don't know the story of a place, it makes it much easier to destroy it. And so much of Flor...
DIANE ROBERTS our family is strong. our only fear is losing you. It's been almost a century that Edward's been alo...
STEPHENIE MEYER Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed
REINHOLD NIEBUHR A man who has the loads of money can easily attract to have a lot of honey.
ANUJ SOMANY The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing t...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Oh, yeah. The people are so wonderful and friendly. I have never been to Mississippi so it was a tre...
DEBORAH BROWN It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No ...
MASARU EMOTO When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI There is too much money in politics today and we need to get too much money out of politics.
BILL GLUBA Money is related to class only in the minds of people who have too much of the former, too little of...
DOUG ROBARCHEK This was a magnificent company that the people who have seized it and used it as a platform from whi...
CONRAD BLACK “Money Does Not Matter” People Who Believe and Say This
are BROKE or HAVE
NO RESPONSIBILITIES
DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no h...
DONALD TRUMP The power to get along well with people is by learning never to expect too much from them.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Success is not a question of how much power or money you have acquired.
It is a question of ho...
GORDANA BIERNAT What the law winds up doing is rewarding people like him for violating it. He violates it by spendin...
DAVID SCHULTZ If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, t...
MITCH HEDBERG The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We wo...
DALE E. TURNER Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.
BARUCH SPINOZA I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my m...
OPRAH WINFREY This is not for people with money. It's for people who want a procedure and can't afford it.
ANN KAPLAN There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in...
KENNY LOGGINS I think the truth is black-and-white.
NANCY GRACE Rock is not dead, but it is The Walking Dead, with a few groups still trying to survive in a zombie ...
MICHAEL P. NAUGHTON A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful ...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN The basic issue about being too close is being closer than you're comfortable with. For some people,...
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than...
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ALICE WALKER I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.
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ALICE WALKER No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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ALICE WALKER Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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ALICE WALKER I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
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ALICE WALKER I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here...
ALICE WALKER ...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to s...
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ALICE WALKER I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but ...
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ALICE WALKER The creative mind is not a mind full of stuff.
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ALICE WALKER Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
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ALICE WALKER Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved.
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ALICE WALKER Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
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ALICE WALKER He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?
I blow my nose. take off t...
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ALICE WALKER Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.
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ALICE WALKER The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
ALICE WALKER She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air.
I s...
ALICE WALKER God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more ...
ALICE WALKER His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64
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ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER Like I said...fine with me.
ALICE WALKER Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237
ALICE WALKER Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
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ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER The more I wonder, the more I love.
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ALICE WALKER Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
ALICE WALKER A grown child is a dangerous thing.
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ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c...
ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people...
ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th...
ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo...
ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama...
ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde...
ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER