"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."

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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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"It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too."

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"The black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated."

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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

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"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

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"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."

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"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

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"History is more or less bunk."

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"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."

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"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."

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"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."

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