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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (1909) -
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
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The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives whith another who shares the same books.
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There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
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There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911) -
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''
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'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
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...they give us vicarious satisfactions for many of our frustrations....People need exercise; they do not need to watch other people exercise... Another vicarious satisfaction is sexy magazines; this is vicarious sex. To anyone rushing to buy one, I'd like to say, The real thing is better.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
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A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
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A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
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A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.
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A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
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