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"My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill."

"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."

"Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them."
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."

"I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes."

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
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"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."

"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."

"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."

"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."

"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."
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