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Ernest Gaines Quotes: Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.
         

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.


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Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.



I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.



Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.



I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.



I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.



Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.



Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.



Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.



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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.



When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.

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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.



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"I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.

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