I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry. ― Oscar Wilde

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The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.

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I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom. ― Rosa Parks

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Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

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I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.

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When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

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