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“I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.”
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“All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.”
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“As man is so constituted that it is utterly impossible for him to attain happiness save by seeking the happiness of others, so does it seem to be of the nature of things that individuals and classes can obtain their own just rights only by struggling for the rights of others.”
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“When you can see the end of things even in their beginnings, there's no more hope, unless you want to pretend, or forget, or get drunk or something.”
Source : Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.61, Heinemann
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“The faster we grew, the more stores we had open, the more money we made. Employees move quickly up the ranks of a company that's growing fast. Shareholders made a lot of money. If you invested $25,000 from January 1987 to January 1994, you'd have more than a million dollars. I get a lot of personal satisfaction from that.”
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“I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.”
Source : John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”
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“I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.”
Source : Ace Frehley, Joe Layden, John Ostrosky (2011). “No Regrets”, p.296, Simon and Schuster
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“As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.”
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“A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.”
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“Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues.”
