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The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if they make money or help to make it.

Middle Classes Extraordinary Conception
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If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscure, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.

Ideology Men Circumstances Appear
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Free Development Condition
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.

Life Mode Action Proteins
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Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.

Charge Wanting Exploitation Children
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Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

Freedom Consist Dreamt-of Independence
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What is good for the ruling class, is alleged to be good for the whole of society with which the ruling class identifies itself.
Good Ruling class Alleged Society
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Terror Useless Cruelties Perpetrated
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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Sense Communists Summed Single-sentence
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
Everything Justify Existence Judgement
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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

Political Class Organisationa Trade
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Laws State Aimed Crime
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All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

History Class Struggle Dominated
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
Freedom Recognition Necessity
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“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

Practice Once Good Makes
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“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”

Example Dry Experience Limit
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“The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart.”

True Listen Ears Heart
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“Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.”
Pretend Rich Poor Great
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“When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in an inappropriate circumstance.”

Talk Analytic Versus Intuitive
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What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.”
What Learned Necessity Inevitable
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“Those three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”

Reward Complexity Autonomy Connection
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“If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.”

Work-hard Assert Mind Imagination
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“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”

Good-decision Knowledge Understanding Swimming
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. “Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”

Truly-successful Decision-making Balance Deliberate
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Achievement is talent plus preparation.
Achievement Talent Plus Preparation
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No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

Who Rise Year Fails
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Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.

Extraordinary Achievement Less Talent
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To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

Someone Best Friend Minimum
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“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning”
Hard-work Prison Sentence Meaning
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Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions … by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

First Impressions Generated Experiences
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Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

Success Random-act Predictable Powerful
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Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Success Function Doggedness Willingness
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The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

Value World Inhabit People
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We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don’t spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.

Spend Time Thinking Prestige
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The world we could have is so much richer than the world we have settled for.
World Have Much Richer
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There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.

Advantages Material Resources Set
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The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence

Poorer Children Mind Better
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Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Abroad Africa African Home
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The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Badge Black Glorious Greatness
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The whole world is run on bluff.
Bluff Run Whole World
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Culture History Knowledge Like Origin
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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Exact Man Reading Ready
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Chance Hope Never People
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I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Africa Back Black Blacks
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I like honesty and fair play.

Honesty Play
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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

American Anglo-Saxon As Far As Better
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Confidence Defeated Life Race
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Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

Look Me Storm Whirlwind
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Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.

Africa Crowned King Look
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Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Africa Based Else Founded
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