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A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
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A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''
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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
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Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
Source: As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
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