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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
Nobody Knows My Name (1961) -
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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Art, the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
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At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
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At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
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By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
Dick Gregory
African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017)
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