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...The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the Negroes in almost all the states in which slavery has been abolished, but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger... The same schools do not receive the children of the black and of the European. In the theaters gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters in the hospitals they lie apart... Not only is slavery prohibited in Ohio, but no free Negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state or to hold property in it. |
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- Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. |
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- Voltaire
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. |
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- Carl Sandburg
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. |
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- Erica Jong
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. |
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- Fred Allen
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A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life. |
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- Reverend Edward A. Malloy
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A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. |
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- Robert F. Bennett
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A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party |
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- Les Brown
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A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day. |
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- John Locke
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