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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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Personal Development
"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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Personal Development
"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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Personal Development
"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
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Personal Development
"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
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Personal Development
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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Personal Development
"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
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Personal Development
"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."
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Personal Development
"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
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Personal Development
"Read much, but not many books."
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"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
Liberty
"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."
Education
"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
Power
"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."
Soul
"If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known."
Earth
"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
Woman
"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."
Life
"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
Work
"To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires."
Education
"An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
Strength
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