Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.

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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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I'm probably not going to be popular with the fighters with this one, but my biggest problem is guys playing it safe. I understand it from a coach's standpoint and a manager's standpoint. I understand why you'd want to play it safe and want to win the fight, win every fight. I get it.
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The type of girls that would sleep with you in a heartbeat aren't the type of girls I'd want to take home anyway.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?
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Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.