Alice Walker
Novelist, Poet
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
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Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
Coretta Scott King
Civil Rights Activist
"Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people."
Barbara Jordan
Politician, Lawyer
"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."
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"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."
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"Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants."
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"Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!"
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"But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love."
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"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
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"Beware the ides of March."
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"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."
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"We have seen better days."
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"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
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"One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts."
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"You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die."
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"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it."
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"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation."
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"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."
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"I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from."
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"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."
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"You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to."
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"Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death."
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"I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes."
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"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
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