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Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.

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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

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Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

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And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.

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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

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The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies.

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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

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There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

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The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

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I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

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Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and whites, but also women and Latinos; and Asians and Native Americans; and gay Americans and Americans with a disability. They swung open for you, and they swung open for me. And that's why I'm standing here today-because of those efforts, because of that legacy.

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My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

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If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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