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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
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Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
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Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.
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Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.
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Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.
Revolutionary Suicide (2009) -
Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.
Notes from a Small Island -
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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