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Relinquishing the urge to fix everything for everyone else was a character flaw identified in counseling. Sammie was learning it wasn’t her job to ensure that those she cared about didn’t make mistakes. Sometimes messing up wasn’t a bad
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“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”
― Unpopular Essays
― Unpopular Essays
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
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“Animosity in fact loves, but in a different sense. Meaning it loves in the same way that, as it is often said, misery loves company. And just as love seeks unity, so does hatred crave uniformity.”
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“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season.”
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“When you don’t do your job, you get fired. That’s your warning.”
― Big Daddy Sinatra: There Was a Ruthless Man
― Big Daddy Sinatra: There Was a Ruthless Man
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