“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
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“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
― Allegiant
― Allegiant
“Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever."
[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
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[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
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“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― The Books in My Life
― The Books in My Life
“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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