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To find people who don't want anything is rare.

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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
Diplomat
Film Producer
Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Andrew Jackson Young
Rare
Anything
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I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
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I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
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I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
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I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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