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“Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.”
Source : "10 Reasons You Have to Quit Your Job in 2014" By James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014. 
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“With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.”
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“Sometimes people don't notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.”
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“Going out to others in order to reach the fringes of humanity does not mean rushing out aimlessly into the world. Often it is better simply to slow down, to put aside our eagerness in order to see and listen to others, to stop rushing from one thing to another and to remain with someone who has faltered along the way.”
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“I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I existed in a space where my mother was a black woman and my father was a white man. And that's how I saw the world. I was just like, some dads are whites and some moms are black. And that's how it is.”
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“That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.”
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“The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.”
Source : "A 'Cooked Seed' Sprouts After All, In America". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 12, 2013.
