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So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have and that is fear and I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth - you have been raised on fears and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear.
- Malcolm X
This past, the Negro's, of rope, fire, torture, death by humiliation; fear by day and night, fear as deep as the marrow of the bone... This past, this endless struggle to achieve and reveal and confirm a human identity... yet contains, for all its horror, something very beautiful... People who can never suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are.
- James Baldwin
For it is a general rule of nature that people despise those who treat them well and look up to those who make no concessions.
- Thucydides
Few people have the wisdom to prefer criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All of man's problems come from not knowing how to sit still, alone in a room.
- Blaise Pascal
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