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Pearl Bailey

"Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence."

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"Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first."
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"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that."
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"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside."
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"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."
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"Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment."
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."
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"Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible."
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"People see God every day, they just don't recognize him."
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"I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go."
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"A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing."
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