Maya Angelou: A black person grows up in this country...

Quote	A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone. Copy
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Quote: To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
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George Orwell
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Quote: Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
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C. S. Lewis
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Quote: All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Quote: Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Quote: People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.
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Maya Angelou
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Quote: All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Socrates
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Quote: In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.
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Elon Musk
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Quote: Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote: I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Quote: Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.
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Sun Tzu
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Quote: You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.
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Rumi
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Quote: I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Quote: It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.
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C. S. Lewis
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Quote: Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
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Marilyn Monroe
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Quote: It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.
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Elon Musk
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Quote: The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
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George Orwell
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Quote: To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Quote: Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.
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Maya Angelou
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Quote: If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I’ve got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
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Marilyn Monroe
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