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Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.
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Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.
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Better build schoolrooms for ''the boy,'' than cells and gibbets for ''the man.''
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
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Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
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Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
Source: Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
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