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“Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.”
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“... the only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”
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“There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.”
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“TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.”
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“The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.”
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“You say that prejudice is cruel! This comes from her being both blind and deaf. She closes her eyes that she may stab you boldly; she knows very well that if once she were to look at you, she could not do it. She stops her ears not to hear your supplications nor your cry of agony .... If, at least, she could leave you some traces of your own self! If, in destroying she would not disfigure you! If you might remain a man amongst men, likeable, warm, cordial; if she did not transform you into a hateful object!”
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“The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.”
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“... what is heroism? it is the deed of a great soul, capable of a great passion.”