reality the fancy of his dreams, and give outward expression to the ideal within. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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Anger is really disappointed hope

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Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

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I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to “test me.” And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein

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A man who indulges in parenthood for the first time at the age of fifty-four deserves all he gets. ― Raymond Chandler

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Sons are born to make their fathers better men.― Mekael Shane

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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

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I knew then that I must survive for something more than survival's sake. I must survive for you. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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