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"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative."
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"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

"You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job."

"Consumption may be regarded as negative production."

"A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force."

"The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence."

"Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes."

"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result."
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"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."

"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."
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