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Med Jones

Med Jones

Work for life and life

Work for life and life will work for you!
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Elaine Davidson

Elaine Davidson

I like pain, I love

I like pain, I love pain.
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B. J. Gupta

B. J. Gupta

Man is a social animal.

Man is a social animal. Without society he is nothing but animal. Yet many consider themselves 'self made'.
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Elaine Davidson

Elaine Davidson

I don't enjoy getting pierced,

I don't enjoy getting pierced, but to break the record you have to get to a high level.
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Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

Respect commands itself and it

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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Med Jones

Med Jones

Choose your career carefully. You

Choose your career carefully. You build your career and your career builds you.
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George Sand

George Sand

Life in common among people

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
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Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

The Twist was a guided

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
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Med Jones

Med Jones

Nothing is worth your peace

Nothing is worth your peace of mind, not even your own ego.
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Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

All the gods are dead

All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

I define joy as a

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
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Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

The white youth of today

The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.
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Med Jones

Med Jones

Complexity is a sign of

Complexity is a sign of intelligence. Simplicity is a sign of wisdom
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Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

Americans think of themselves collectively

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
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Hilton Kramer

Hilton Kramer

The more minimal the art,

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
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Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

If a man like Malcolm

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
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Med Jones

Med Jones

A simple lifestyle gives you

A simple lifestyle gives you freedom. An expensive lifestyle enslaves you. Create a simple lifestyle, regardless of how much money you earn. Simple living will remove unnecessary demands on your life and free your mind to make the right choices. Simplicity will reduces your stress and make you happier
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Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

Too much agreement kills the

Too much agreement kills the chat.
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B. J. Gupta

B. J. Gupta

Any activity that adversely affects

Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral.
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Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

In prison, those things withheld

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

The paper tiger hero, James

The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.
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John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier

Clothe with life the weak

Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.
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Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver

You are either part of

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
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Leon Samson

Leon Samson

The Diplomat sits in silence,

The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.
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