"What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict."

Society, Bias, Truth, Conflict, Perception

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"What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict."

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"So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.' I smiled. 'You can't go disappearing on everybody like this, Hazel. You miss too much."

John Green, American Author

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"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."

John Green, American Author

Society, Feminism, Expression, Art, Power

"I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Society, Purity, Values, Competition, Selfishness

"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Society, Judgment, Behavior, Truth, Humanity

"Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Society, Woman, Mother, Sister, Daughter

"A country is poor not because they have no wealth but because they have no good ideas."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Praying without gratitude is more like complaining."

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"Faith is not the belief that everything will be all right tomorrow, but the belief that I possess the strength to make everything all right today."

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"I promise, when you always expect the worst, you will not be disappointed."

Attitude

"Usually when someone is angry we hear their angry words. Instead, try hearing the unspoken, "I am scared, I am frustrated, I am insecure, I am vulnerable, I am threatened."

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"Success is too often measured by the size of one's bank account or the degree of their celebrity. Yet, neither can truly represent the size of one's character or the depth of their soul."

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"Love, affection, even attention are not things that need pursuit. If they are not given freely, openly, willingly to you by another person, then stop trying to obtain them from that person. Someone else will gladly share theirs with you."

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"It takes a rare person to care the same or more about you than themselves. So, until you find that person, please look after yourself."

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"Happiness is best when shared. Wherever you go, make sure to leave a little happiness behind."

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"As soon as you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it."

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"Life's journey is peppered with many bumps and pitfalls. If we make mountains out of each one, we will get nowhere."

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