"Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character"

-- Edward Bates

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“I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.”
“Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.”
“Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.”

Source : "The Maze Maker: A Novel".
“Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.”
“The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of men, too - certainly for most women - there's enough real conflict without manufacturing it. The media formula is always to have a pro and con, to say there are two sides to any issue, when in fact there may be ten sides.”
“The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.”
“The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.”
“I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have.”

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