If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife. ― Malcolm X

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I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

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Look from the blind man's eye.... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

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Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all. ― Kurt Cobain

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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. ― Milton Friedman

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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