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"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
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"Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world."

"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."

"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear."

"In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels."

"The verdict of the world is conclusive."

"The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
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"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands."

"It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual."

"So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter."

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."
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