Quotes 261 till 280 of 11114.
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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If you see something good, give a compliment. If you see something wrong, offer your help.
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If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
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If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
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If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
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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.
Source: Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 222 -
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
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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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Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
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