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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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Personal Development
"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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Personal Development
"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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Personal Development
"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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Personal Development
"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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Personal Development
"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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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
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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Personal Development
"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
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"In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure."
Success
"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
Will
"You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being."
Being
"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
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