Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

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When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

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We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people. - Huey Newton

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. ― Malcolm X

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When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

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Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

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Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

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If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

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