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A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
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I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
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A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
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If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you - he really is an idiot.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.
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Bible study is like eating peanuts. The more you eat, the more you want to eat.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.
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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
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