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Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.
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May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love.
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
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My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.
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Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
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No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
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No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
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No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
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No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
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Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
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