"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
"There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know."
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Source: Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.894, Modern Library
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