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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown.
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
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If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
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If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 222 -
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
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In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.
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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
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In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
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Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
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It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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