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When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists — nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
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I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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Children see things very well sometimes — and idealists even better.
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
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Lorraine Hansberry
Born:
May 19, 1930
Died:
January 12, 1965
(aged 34)
Bio:
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an American playwright and writer. Hansberry inspired Nina Simone's song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black".
Known for:
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
Les Blancs
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (1965)
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