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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

Harriet Tubman

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

Harriet Tubman

I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

Harriet Tubman

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S Truman

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Harry S Truman

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S Truman

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S Truman

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Harry S Truman

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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

P. J. O'Rourke

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

P. J. O'Rourke

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

P. J. O'Rourke

I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady.

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Radicals can be found in any environment.

Vladimir Putin

Purge yourself of hate. I'm not just a journalist but an African Leader. If that gets you angry, live with that FACT!

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Even in Europe and the US, you encounter dead spots!

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If you are carrying an elephant on your head, don't use your toe to kill an ant. Ignore small haters. Your progress is too vital to interrupt for them

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if we remove sex from relationship you will discover that most of we ladies have nothing to offer in relationships, search your conscience, what else do you offer aside from sex

Tiwa Savage

Remove money from a relationship and you will discover that over 90% of ladies wonâ€™t see a reason to be in a relationship.

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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

Vidal Sassoon

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

Vidal Sassoon

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Vidal Sassoon

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Harry S Truman

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Harry S Truman

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

Abigail Van Buren

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Harry S Truman

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Haruki Murakami

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

Haruki Murakami

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Benjamin Disraeli

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

Demetri Martin

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Benjamin Disraeli

When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles. And I'll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.

Teju Cole

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Benjamin Disraeli

In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Teju Cole