"Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal."

-- Nicolas Gomez Davila

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“It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.”
“The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.”
“GOOD THINGS DO COME IN BEARS!!.... is how I climax.”
“Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it.”
“Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.”
“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”
“These people looked Japanese, were originally Japanese, were numerous. We had no way of knowing to what extent they had been infiltrated. To their great credit, it seems not to have been very much at all. But I can understand why. And I rather respect Eleanor for standing out against the tide at that point. But it certainly was a tide. And I'm not going to say it was unjustified.”
“If you think I'm afraid of the steel cage...YOU'RE RIGHT! Please God, don't make me go into the cage!”

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