"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
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"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.“
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"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."
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"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now."
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"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up."
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"Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it."
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"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
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