"There is a very fine line between..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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“If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.”
“We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.”
“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.”
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“The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.”
“We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!”
“All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, `This is the only area where I let down.` Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.”
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“He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.”
“By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.”
“Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.”