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“Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.”
Source : Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.
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“I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.”
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“My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.”
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“I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.”
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“You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.”
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“The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.”
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“We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.”
Source : Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.78, Simon and Schuster