Maya Angelou
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There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
If someone tells you who they are, believe them.
You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
I know why the caged bird sings.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
Think as I think said the man, or you are abominable. You are a toad. And after I had thought on it, I said I will then, be a toad.
1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.
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