"I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society."

-- Charles Mingus

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“As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.”

Source : John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”
“Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.”
“The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.”

Source : Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.130, Lulu Press, Inc
“Joan Rivers is a very wise lady. We're good friends, and I find her very much an inspiration as to how to conduct your life, and how to remain very youthful, with ambitions and dreams. Anyway, she always says that she says "yes" to everything, because you never know which thing will click, or be thrilling.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.”
“If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved.”
“... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.71, Feminist Press at CUNY
“They're not bullying you because of you,they're bullying you because of how they are”

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