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"Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy."
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"Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment."
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"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."
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"It's not that I've been invited to the hole I'm standing in. It's that I accepted the invitation."
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"Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it."
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"If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect."
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"The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain."
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"Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it's a little closer to being perfect."
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"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."
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"If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone."
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"You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for."
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"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."
Losing
"I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered."
Politics
"The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970."
History
"If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000."
Employment
"Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam."
Politics
"The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members."
Peace
"Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout."
Money
"Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy."
Acceptance
"Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi."
Politics
"I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission."
People
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