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People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the whites only signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
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''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
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