Violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
~ Toni Morrison
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The success of communism in the world today is due to the failure of democracy to live up to the noble ideals and principles inherent in its system.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
~ Saul Bellow
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The surer and more devoid of surprises are your means, the more astonishing miracles you will realize.
~ Salvador Dali
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It will never make any difference to a hero what the laws are. Their greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end, whether they second him or not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.
~ Rollo May
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Personally, I have always felt the best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can’t ask his patients what is the matter — he’s got to just know.
~ Will Rogers
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Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.
~ Norbert Wiener
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There needs to be something in your life of a goddess of Nemesis which pulls you down when you get too high and pulls you up when you feel the sense of inadequacy and that is what religion at its best does. It keeps you to the point that you don’t feel like you are too low and you don’t feel like you are too high but you’ll maintain that type of balance.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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