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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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Personal Development

"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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Personal Development

"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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Personal Development

"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."
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Personal Development

"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
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Personal Development

"I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group."
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Personal Development

"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."
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Personal Development

"We can choose to live under the ruler-ship of God or under the ruler-ship of the devil."
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"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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Personal Development

"The will of God is good, acceptable and perfect."
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"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
Will

"I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."
Education

"No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain."
Sociology

"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."
Sociology

"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."
History

"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace."
Ethics

"Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. she was the one whose words hurt him."
Strength

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
Ethics

"One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding."
Hope

"Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks."
Ethics
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