No human being can ever 'own' ...

No human being can ever \'own\' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.