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  • Malcolm X Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Beth Ditto Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson Before competition, as I stand in shoulder pads and cleats, my helmet in my left hand, adrenaline flowing and my heart raging under my right, I never forget the ills of America, but for a moment I envision its potential, remember its prosperity, and give thanks to God for the land He has placed me in and the people I love who live in it.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Ada Leverson Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Assata Shakur Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Francis Picabia Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Sydney Smith Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Blame it on the lies that killed us
    Blame it on the truth that ran us down
    You can blame it all on me, Terry
    It don't matter to me now.
    Born To Run (1975) Backstreets
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Oswald Chambers Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Joseph Addison Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Samuel Johnson Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town;
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
    You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Brit Morin Brit + Co tries to help women understand that they are creative and give them all sorts of opportunities to try their hand at something creative. We want it to be as easy as possible to start. If that means you uploading a pattern to Spoon flower and make wallpaper, that's great. You made it!
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Alan Watts Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Beilby Porteus But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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