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James Arthur Baldwin
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.
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Mao Zedong
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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John Taylor, former president of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints
The kingdom of God or nothing.
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Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
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H. P. Lovecraft
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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Gore Vidal
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
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Ann Landers
The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.
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Oscar Wilde
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
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Mark Twain
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
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Isadora Duncan
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
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