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  • Booker T. Washington We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
    Lacon
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • William James We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Walt Kelly We have meet the enemy; and he is us.
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  • Charles Péguy We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
    Charles Péguy
    French writer and poet (1873 - 1914)
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  • Malcolm X We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bill Flores We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Charlie Chaplin We think too much and feel too little.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Robin George Collingwood What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • Joseph Addison What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Adam Smith What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • William Shakespeare What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Calista Flockhart What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Bill Laswell What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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