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"If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go."
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"Don't let the bastards grind you down."

"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

"Life is the music of your soul, all you need to do is to listen hard."

"Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not."

"Don't lose hope. If your hope gets lost, the other side called "failure" begins to win! The quickest medicine to heal a depressed soul is to command; "arise my soul and praise the Lord". Hope is the clothe piece in which wraps a healthy soul!"

"Your education is your life."

"Without a vision, where is the focus?"

"Light is not out there. It is in your heart always ready to show you the path."

"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."
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"The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black."

"If I could make you stay, I would,' he shouted. 'If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you-if I could make you stay, I would.' He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. 'One day, perhaps, you will wish I had."

"I told myself all sorts of lies, standing there at the bar, but I could not move. And this was partly because I knew that it did not really matter anymore; it did not even matter if I never spoke to Giovanni again; for they had become visible, as visible as the wafers on the shirt of the flaming princess, they stormed all over me, my awakening, my insistent possibilities."

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be."

"The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare."

"He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear."

"I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter."

"Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges."

"Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being."

"We had our arms round each other. It was like holding in my hand some rare, exhausted, nearly doomed bird which I had miraculously happened to find."
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