Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have.
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I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.
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I've not actually been on too many dates.
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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
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The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.
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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
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A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He’ll Swing!
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My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
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Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He answered, 'I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide.
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As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.
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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
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Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.
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There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
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Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.
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Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether.
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Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have.
