Malcolm X Quotes
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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You put high heels on and you change.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.
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I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.
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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
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I’m going to make her cry. I’m going to sing ‘Dixie’ until she cries.' in an elevator to Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African-American woman elected to the Senate
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
