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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

James Baldwin

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
JAMES BALDWIN

Pain People Suffering
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Beginning Conscience Development Society War Yourself
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Children Imitate Listen Parents
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Destroy Fever Hurt Life Love Lovers Mistake Passion Rebel True
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Inspirational Interrupt Sky
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Debased Life Love One Liner
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Deal Fear Hate Imagination Pain People Reason
There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Arrive People Perpetual World
If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Deep Insult One Liner Person Respect Treat
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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Claim Earth Equality God Men Sight Soul
If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Attitude Insult One Liner Revenge Self Love Thinking
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust
Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Humour One Liner Reality Time Worst Youth
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Hatred Heaven People Silence
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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Believe Endure Humanity Inferior Remember

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

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