"Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top."

-- Paul Robeson

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“How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.”
“And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.”
“They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would leave, that has a heart Susceptible of pity, or a mind Cultured and capable of sober thought.”
“The noblest mind the best contentment has”

Source : Edmund Spenser, Roy Maynard (1999). “Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene”, p.32, Canon Press & Book Service
“Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.”
“Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.”

Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.48, MIT Press
“I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.”
“Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.”

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