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"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar."
"Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature."
"The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power."
"When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled."
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"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."
"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time.""
"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."
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