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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have the right to do it."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)"

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough."

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Ovid Poet
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"Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies."

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"What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!"

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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
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"As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward."

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