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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter…This is it…If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here's the place to have the experience.
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
You may search my time-worn face, You'll find a merry eye that twinkles I am NOT an old lady Just a little girl with wrinkles.
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but, live for it.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
In life there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what you want, the other is getting it.
