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“New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.”
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“Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.”
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“So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,†you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing”
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“I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.”
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“As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.”
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“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”
Source : "A Letter to My Nephew" by James Baldwin, progressive.org. January 1, 1962. 
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“I hope that the day will come when the system will change and all of the people in Ethiopia will have equal rights and I look forward to a day like that where I too can go home and be part of the Ethiopian story.”
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“I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.”
Source : Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, St. Martin's Press
