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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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Personal Development

"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."
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Personal Development

"Now, we used to say we put on our tights to put on the world. So I don't think it tarnishes the image at all."
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Personal Development

"So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there."
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Personal Development

"Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do."
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Personal Development

"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."
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"I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'"
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Personal Development

"The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending."
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"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity."
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"Old is always fifteen years from now."
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"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."
Time

"Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms."
Action

"The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina."
College

"In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions."
Legal

"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman."
Woman

"King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian."
Thought

"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."
Thought

"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."
Living

"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."
Social Class

"We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable."
Now
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