"Knowledge is the prime need of the hour."

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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“No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.”
“[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.”
“Swimmin in the money come and find me, NEMO.”
“I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 13 years ago-crawling along, miles under the speed limit, feeling the weight of my daughter's future resting in my hands. I think about the pledge I made to her that day: that I would give her what I never had-that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father. I knew that day that my own life wouldn't count for much unless she had every opportunity in hers.”
“One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit itâ€”or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.”
“This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers.”
“Color and I are one. I am a painter.”
“Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.”

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