Maya Angelou: I could fall in love with a sumo...

Quote	I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate. Copy
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Quote: We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Quote: I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote: If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
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Sun Tzu
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Quote: Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.
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Quote: If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Quote: No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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Oscar Wilde
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Quote: Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Quote: If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
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William Shakespeare
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Quote: Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
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Billy Graham
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Quote: Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
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Dr. Seuss
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Quote: I didn’t change, I just found myself.
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Quote: The essence of knowledge is, having it, to use it.
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Confucius
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Quote: Injustice is impiety. For since the universal nature has made rational animals for the sake of one another to help one another according to their deserts, but in no way to injure one another, he who transgresses her will is clearly guilty of impiety toward the highest divinity.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: Fear is stupid, so are regrets.
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Marilyn Monroe
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Quote: Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote: I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.
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Yogi Berra
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Quote: Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox.
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Quote: Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
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Nelson Mandela
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Quote: I believe in Spinoza’s God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: My true self is free, it cannot be contained.
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Quote: One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
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Stephen Hawking
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Quote: Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote: During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.
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Quote: What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote: If you want to be a man of honour and a man of your word, who is going to stop you? You say you don’t want to be obstructed or forced to do something against your will – well, who
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Quote: I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote: I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.
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Elon Musk
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Quote: My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
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