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"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
Fire
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
Personal
"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
Progress
"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."
Future
"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him."
Character
"One and God make a majority."
God
"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
Work
"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."
Work
"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
Politics
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
People
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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"The world system is employment."
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"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."
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Personal Development
"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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Personal Development
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."
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Personal Development
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