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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."
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Personal Development
"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."
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Personal Development
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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Personal Development
"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."
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Personal Development
"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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Personal Development
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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Personal Development
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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Personal Development
"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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Personal Development
"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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"You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun."
Black
"Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God."
God
"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."
Money
"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
Life
"The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South."
Friendship
"Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways."
People
"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."
Despair
"My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals."
Money
"There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it."
People
"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character."
Music
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