"But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs."

-- Thomas Keneally

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“A man is related to all nature.”
“I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?”

Source : "Educators debate black students' lagging test scores". www.cnn.com. October 26, 2000.
“That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.”
“The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.”
“[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.”
“If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.”
“Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 31-33, Sicelides, act II, scene 4, 1922.
“Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness.”

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