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Ray Charles

"I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing."

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"I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing."

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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

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"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

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"Why have your followers all drawn their swords, may I ask?" said Aslan."May it please Your High Majesty," said the second Mouse, whose name was Peepiceek, "we are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief must go without his. We will not bear the shame of wearing an honor which is denied to the High Mouse.""Ah!" roared Aslan. "You have conquered me. You have great hearts. Not for the sake of your dignity, Reepicheep, but for the love that is between you and your people, and still more for the kindness your people showed me long ago when you ate away the cords that bound me on the Stone Table (and it was then, though you have long forgotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice), you shall have your tail again."

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"The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman."

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"If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society."

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"I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot."

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"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

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"We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard."

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"If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, we must purposefully begin a campaign for national reorientation."

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"Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor."
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"My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching."
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