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Message to the Blackman in America

by Elijah Muhammad

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“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

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“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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“What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"Ask a glass of water!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: drunk, humour, jokes

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“I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.”
― Yann Martel

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