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The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much

The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. – James Baldwin

Other quotes by James Baldwin

You know, its not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. – James Baldwin

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Oppression
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. – James Baldwin

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Perspective
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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Purity
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Other Quotes from
Conformity & Nonconformity
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. – Eric Hoffer

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Conformity & Nonconformity

Conformity, humility, acceptance… with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. – Robert Lindner

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Conformity & Nonconformity

Random Quotes

Id never had money growing up, and its never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that. – Harlan Coben

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Money

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. – Franz Kafka

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Food

I dont want to feel like a failure to my daughter. Shes the best thing Ive ever done. Buffy – pretty great and all, but Charlottes way better. – Sarah Michelle Gellar

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Failure

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle a thing that flies. – John Lester

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Internet