The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
JAMES BALDWINPeople who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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