"Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety."

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"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

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"“A cucumber is bitter.” Throw it away. “There are briars in the road.” Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, “And why were such things made in the world?”"

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"America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam."

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"Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude."

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"“If everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”"

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"“I see nobody on the road,” said Alice.  “I only wish I had such eyes,” the King remarked in a fretful tone.“To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!”"

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"I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them."

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"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

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"Perfect courage is todo without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world."

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"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feelings of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people."

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"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."

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