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“The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.”
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“I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.”
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“We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.”
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“One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.”
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“Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.”
Source : Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin
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“I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.”
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“People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.”
Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc