Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

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I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison. —bell hooks, black feminist social critic

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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. —Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian activist

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As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war. —Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president

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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. —Noam Chomsky, American activist and professor of linguistics at MIT

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband’s often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says “What would I do without you?” is already destroyed. —Germaine Greer, writer, broadcaster, academic, and feminist

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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. —Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady

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The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

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I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating… because I think that especially for black women, the more we rise from the bottom, the more we move and journey, the more we are the targets of the most brutal and vicious attacks. —bell hooks, black feminist social critic

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. —Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright

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