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As a guy who has done damage, I don’t want to do any more damage. I know what I did. I helped divide. Please don’t make the mistakes I made.

Dec 19, 2016

Glenn Beck, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
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I have a few concerns/edits: Instead of ‘U.S. government’s illegal spying operations,’ I’d propose ‘U.S. government’s controversial intelligence gathering’… I would replace ‘misuse of power’ with ‘actions.’

May 13, 2014

Keith Weaver, Wikileaks
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Dear young people, we didn't come into this world to 'vegetate’, to take it easy, to make our lives a comfortable sofa to fall asleep on. No, we came for another reason: To leave a mark.

Jul 30, 2016

Pope Francis, CBS News
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It just shouldn’t have happened… This was an easy home run speech: a successful, attractive immigrant talking about her husband.

Jul 19, 2016

Matt Latimer, CNN
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Hate speech against migrants is an important part of what we now have no tolerance for on Facebook."

Feb 26, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg, BBC News
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America didn’t become the richest country in the world by practicing socialism, or the strongest country by denigrating its governing institutions, or the most talent-filled country by stoking fear of immigrants.

Feb 17, 2016

Thomas Friedman, The New York Times
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To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation: we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s our time to have wage equality once and for all, and to fight for equal rights for women in America.

Feb 22, 2015

Patricia Arquette, 2015 Academy Awards
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Vaccines are to measles what responsible gun storage is to child shootings. The onus is on adults to protect children.

Feb 03, 2015

Shannon Watts, Twitter
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Listen to yourself, and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

May 23, 2014

Maya Angelou, Twitter
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Dec 15, 2015

Daniel Boorstin, Famous historian
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