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"Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live."
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Personal Development

"We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons."
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Personal Development

"Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil."
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Personal Development

"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."
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Personal Development

"I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives."
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Personal Development

"A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity-or none at all-with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it. Throughout history societies have found ways of using this store of aggression, turning their adolescents into soldiers, cannon fodder with which to conquer their neighbors or defend themselves against their aggressors."
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Personal Development

"Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them."
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Personal Development

"Stereotyping as a term has a negative connotation."
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Personal Development

"No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure."
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Personal Development

"Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
Morality

"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
Justice

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
Art

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."
Morality

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
Time

"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
Philosophy

"Hitch your wagon to a star."
Inspirational

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."
Perception

"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man."
Happiness

"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."
Society
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