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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#actions #censored #change #character #dangerous

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ↗

— Carl Jung

#everything #irritates #lead #others #ourselves

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#achieved #against #alone #corporation #could

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim. ↗

— Donald Judd

#anybody #anyone #claim #culture #grand

I'm more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and Olympic champions begin at a grassroots level. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#champions #grassroots #hands-on #i #level

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#came #coffee #colombia #how #i

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#forced #get #into #man #out

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#been #development #even #half #human

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghan people #majority #partnership #people #states

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#country #prove #sovereign #states #treating