"When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself"

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Source : Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

Langston Hughes

#Men Quotes #World Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.”
“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”
“The responses of friendliness, compassion, and appreciation that I felt ...--all situational permutations of basic goodwill--depended on my mind's being relaxed and alert enough to notice both what was happening around me and what was happening as my internal response. [p.50]”
“Here, in the US, people like our music because it's very similar to blues. It's the same thing in Europe. Everyone listens to blues and rock, it's universal. Everyone dances.”

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“The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.”
“The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.”
“The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.”
“As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.”

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