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“Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.”
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“The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.”
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“Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul.”
Source : Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”
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“Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.”
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“If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.”
Source : Speech to the students of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Summer 2010.
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“The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations, May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart, I shall not ever forget the lilacs or the roses Nor those the spring has kept folded away apart.”
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“We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.”