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Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]


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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.



Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.



To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.



Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest



We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.



Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.



Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.



There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.



Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.



To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.





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But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.



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