Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.James A. Baldwin
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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