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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
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We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
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What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.
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Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
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When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
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