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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face."
Time


"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway."
Care


"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time."
Attitude


"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality."
Change


"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."
Consciousness


"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude."
Attitude


"The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
Mind


"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being."
Being


"Black man, you are on your own."
Man
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