"The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account."

-- W. Somerset Maugham

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“A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.”

Source : "Advancing the Dream Through Education" by Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2013.
“Apparently sometimes my humor is dryer than a desert.”
“You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity. What about your dedicated soldiers that have helped fight in Afghanistan and Iraq? They're living in tents and our soldiers are living in tents. So it's OK for soldiers to live in tents, in hot tents, but it's wrong for inmates?”
“I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.”
“â€¦ that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each otherâ€™s company again.”
“The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.”
“If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.”

Source : YouTube Channel "jerbo414"/"Fred Hampton Speech: 'Why don't you die for the people'", www.youtube.com. August 28, 2010.
“It's curious how many people are ready to believe that the highest prices guarantee the best value.”

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