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#1

“The challenges in today's world are real and threatening. But they cannot withstand the assault of sustained flexible and out-of-the-box thinking. The mind is limitless in its ability to adapt where necessary and create where inevitable. The onus is on the owner of the mind to make the needed shift in attitude, backed by a concerted action. It is time to eschew fear and complacency and, in the words of Steve Jobs, 'stay hungry and stay foolish'.”
― Abiodun Fijabi

tags: adapt, challenge, complacency, create, flexible-thinking, foolish, hungry, limitless, out-of-the-box-thinking-quote, threatening

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#2

“Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime.”
― Miya Yamanouchi

tags: abuse, domestic-violence, ex, heartache, love, partner, passion, threatening, violence, violence-against-women

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#3

“When nothing around you makes sense, everything is equally threatening.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

tags: confusion, fear, threatening, unknown

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#4

“Listen very carefully. Because I'm only going to lay this out for you once. I'm no longer the easy prey I once was and if you go up against me I will make sure you end up behind bars. You've fraudulently pocketed the money from the video. Our lawyers already have a criminal suit against you ready to go. Unless you're particularly keen on jail, you will leave my family alone, and you will withdraw the video and return all that money to the people you stole it from."
Julia opened her mouth, but Trisha held up her hand and she closed it. "And if you do one thing to harm DJ"- because suddenly Trisha was sure Julia had something on DJ; her nineties-Bollywood-plot theory didn't seem so farfetched- "I will make sure that every one of the families you've preyed on to make money off their tragedies gets together and sues your ass until every penny you've ever leeched is gone. Now get out of my office. Get out of my building- which by the way is private property. Soliciting business here is illegal. So the next time you think of setting foot here, know that I will have security throw you out on your cowardly, pathetic ass.”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

tags: shots-fired, threatening, trisha-raje, upper-hand

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#5

“If a danger threatens you, you threaten that danger too”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: danger, dangers, murat-ildan-quotes, threaten, threatening

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#6

“Every once in a while, I get the urge. You know what I'm talking about, don't you? The urge for destruction. The urge to hurt, maim, kill. It's quite a thing to experience that urge, to let it wash over you, to give in to it. It's addictive. It's all-consuming. You lose yourself to it. It's quite, quite wonderful. I can feel it, even as I speak, tapping around the edges of my mind, trying to prise me open, slip its fingers in. And it would be so easy to let it happen. But we're all like that, aren't we? We're all barbarians at our core. We're all savage, murderous beasts. I know I am. I'm sure you are. The only difference between us, Mr. Prave, is how loudly we roar. I know I roar very loudly indeed. How about you. Do you think you can match me?”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

tags: awesome, epic, great-quote, ominous, threatening

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#7

“If the sky has turned a darkened grey and the sea threatens to spill the occupants in the boat, know that the Lord God made the storm still, and though you shall face storms in your life the Lord God will still them with his hand. When you are alone, Jesus will have his arms wrapped around you, holding you tightly, the angels shall call out your name when you feel that you have been deaf, and you shall see the light of Heaven when you think you are blind. When you feel your dreams are broken it does not do well to cast yourself into misery but look at the brighter side of life, and see all the Lord has blessed you with!”
― Ariana Pedigo, Little Man

tags: blessed, blind, boat, broken, darkened, dreams, faith, faithfulness, god, hope, lord, religious, sea, still, storms, threatening

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#8

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anger, battles, betrayal, consequences, divorce, fights, hurt, judgement, justice, letting-go, love, low-self-esteem, moving-on, pain, relationships, revenge, self-worth, seperation, vindication

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#9

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, dissent, protest

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#10

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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#11

“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, skepticism

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#12

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism

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#13

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
― Carl Sagan

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#14

“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
― George Carlin

tags: absurdity, belief, credulity, doubt, evidence, gullibility, humor, indoctrination, invisible, reason, skepticism

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#15

“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.”
― Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations

tags: affection, certainty, doubt, evidence, guess, humble, ideas, life, mistake, science, scientific, skepticism, surrender, thought

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#16

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

tags: evidence, skepticism

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#17

“In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: accusation, assumption, bias, blame, extroversion, extroverts, fear, guilt, innocence, introversion, introverts, judgment, judgmental, judgmentality, people, skepticism, social-norms, society, unconscious-mind

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#18

“Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: accusations, allies, belief, believing, connection, discernment, doubt, enemies, faithfulness, fake-friends, friend, friends, friendship, friendships, friendships-and-love, guilt, haters, honesty, innocence, judgment, love, love-and-friendship, loyalty, misunderstood, opposition, questions, relationship, sincerity, skepticism, suspicion, trust, trusting, truth, understanding

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#19

“You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

tags: confidence, opposition, resistance, struggle

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#20

“It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: articulate, belief, challenging, disagreements, enemies, honesty, opinion, opposition, stand-out, truth

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#21

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, opposition, wisdom

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#22

“When they judge you, yawn.
When they misunderstand you, smile.
When they underestimate you, laugh.
When they condemn you, ignore.
When they envy you, rejoice.
When they oppose you, prevail.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: believe-in-yourself, criticism-quotes, critics-quotes, envy-quotes, judging-others, life-lessons-quotes, opposition

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#23

“People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: blaming, blaming-others, brokenness, disorders, hatred, high-standards, hypocrisy, ignoring, illness, issues, judgement, judging-others, learning, narcissistic, no-conscience, no-filter, paranoia, poor-character, problems, realization, respecting-others, self-absorbed, self-abuse, self-realization, trust, trustworthy

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#24

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: accusations, bitter, blind-to-truth, character, character-assassination, civil-rights, conscience, creator, criticism, deceased-people, destroy, entertainment, evidence, falsely-accused, falsely-destroyed, god, gossip, gossip-quotes, gossiping, guilt-by-trial, guilty, guilty-conscience, history, hung-jury, ignorance, inestigators, innocence, innocent, integrity, investigate, judging, judging-actions, judging-others, judicial-system, jury-hearing, justice, knowledge, lamp, lamps, law, law-and-order, lie, light, lying, media, media-distortion, misjudge, misjudged, misjudgment, opinion, opinions-of-others, politics, popular-opinion, press, proof, recognize-truth, repuation-mangement, reputation, rumors, rumours, seek, seek-truth, society, tangerines, telling-the-truth, thinking, trial, trust-your-heart, truth, truth-and-justice, truth-telling, witness, woman, women

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#25

“While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: assessments, assumptions, biases, criticize, judge, judging, opinions, regard, richelle, richelle-goodrich

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#26

“A flawless delusion is more appealing to the human mind than a flawed reality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

tags: biases, brainy-quotes, cognitive-neuroscience, cognitive-psychology, human-nature, implicit-bias, neuroscience, perception-of-reality, prejudice, psychology

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#27

“Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

tags: implicit-bias, racism, sexism

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#28

“. . . I'm not sure we always respect the mysteries of the locked door and the dangers of the storytelling problem. There are times when we demand an explanation when an explanation really isn't possible, and, as we'll explore in the upcoming chapters of this book, doing so can have serious consequences. 'After the O.J. Simpson verdict, one of the jurors appeared on TV and said with absolute conviction, "Race had absolutely nothing to do with my decision,"' psychologist Joshua Aronson says. 'But how on earth could she know that? What my [and others] research . . . show[s] is that people are ignorant of the things that affect their actions, yet they rarely feel ignorant. We need to accept our ignorance and say "I don't know" more often.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

tags: implicit-bias, psychology, research, science, unconscious

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#29

“No amount of psychological therapy or group training can effectively address racism in this country, unless we also begin to dismantle the structures of racism.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

tags: antiracism, edi, implicit-bias, institutional-racism

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#30

“I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true”
― Lady Gaga

tags: disinformation, lie, lies, music, truth

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