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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
If you talk to [someone] in a language [he or she] understands, that goes to [the person's] head. If you talk to [somebody] in [his or her] language, that goes to [the] heart.
When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.
But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give up to despair.
That way lay defeat and death.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
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