If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
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There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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If you want success, be unique. ~Natalie Massenet
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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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A watched pot never boils. ~English Proverb
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East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy; they are coming together. There need not be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe. ~Orhan Pamuk
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. ~Jan Karon
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When the legs go, the heart soon follows ~John Wooden
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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