Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.
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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
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I get nervous for everything - literally everything.
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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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I wish I wasn't … There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
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I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.
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I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.
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I like ungroomed men. The relaxed look. I don't like fussy guys. Just shower and use deodorant.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.
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Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.
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Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.
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New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.
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I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.
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Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.
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I felt really good, really relaxed. I made an effort to clear my mind.
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What came to my mind yesterday and also today is to see the vacuum that he leaves be filled by people with a sense of responsibility, with a sense of unity, with a sense of generosity for the people of Kosovo.
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I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.
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My fear is if there is a trial we're going to see the partisanship getting involved again -- attack, counter-attack, a challenge, a counter-challenge and it's disastrous to this country.
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All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
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I think I'll always feel a little in awe whenever I see someone in their 20s or 30s carrying a cello or violin case - because I know, if they're doing it professionally, how many years of practice have gone into being able to make music with them. And the sounds they can make just hit me very hard, and feel full of limitless complexity.
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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.
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In this insane, chaotic world, you can only be insane and chaotic.
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So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.
