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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

"Do it or not, but do."

"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."

"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

"Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself."

"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."
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"If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are."

"I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining."

"The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world."

"We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution."

"I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy."

"The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America."

"I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan."

"I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values."

"James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had."
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