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I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

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You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.

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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.

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You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.

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Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

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When you learn, teach. When you get, give.

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We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham -- both are certain they are the real American.

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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

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There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

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Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

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See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing if you're for the right thing then you'll do it without thinking.

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See, you dont have to think about doing the right thing if you are for the right thing then youll do it without thinking.

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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

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My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself.

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Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

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love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it

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Lift up your eyes upon. This day breaking for you. Give birth again. To the dream.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

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In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

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