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Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
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Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is recognise that we are humans too.
It was a very brutal scene, so repercussions of that are equally as brutal.
Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
I've always been spiritual. I wish it had been developed in some other way, but I think in our culture it rarely is. This is as far as we get.
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
You kept to yourself.
With the greatest possible solicitude avoid authorship. Too early or immoderately employed, it makes the head waste and the heart empty; even were there no other worse consequences. A person, who reads only to print, to all probability reads amiss; and he, who sends away through the pen and the press every thought, the moment it occurs to him, will in a short time have sent all away, and will become a mere journeyman of the printing-office, a compositor.
I sold because there were too many problems and nothing was the same.
Why not? I made them.