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 | "Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor ? all men
know something of poverty; not that men are wicked ? who is good? Not that
men are ignorant ? what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of
men." | |
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| "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of
always looking at one?s self through the eyes of others.... One feels his
two-ness ? an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled
strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone
keeps it from being torn asunder." | |
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Found in the topic Africa.
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| "The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." | |
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Found in the topic Liberty.
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| "The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work
brings you and the world?s need of that work. With this, life is heaven,
or as near heaven as you can get. Without this ? with work which you
despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need ? this life is
hell." | |
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Found in the topic Work.
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| "Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in
these days to make the world beautiful for us." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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