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A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
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It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
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Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
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Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
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