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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
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I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
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I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
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I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Long Walk to Freedom (1995) -
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
3 december 1964 -
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
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I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
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I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like: it is terrifying.
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