There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. - Maya Angelou

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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

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Truth, World, Facts, Obscure, Difference, Between

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Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, Sylvia Plath, Langston Hughes

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American - Poet April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014

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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.Maya Angelou

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Born Virtue Honest

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'Maya Angelou

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Gift Wake Up Becoming

There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.Tommy Lasorda

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Wonder Make It Happen People

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.George Washington Carver

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Reasons Distinct Passed

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai

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Let Us Change The World Remember

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.Marilyn Monroe

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Sin To Love Girl

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.Frederick William Robertson

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Hypocrisy Tyranny Mercy

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.William E. Gladstone

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Forward Replace Our World

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.Maya Angelou

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Walked Hands Grandmother

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.Maya Angelou

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Passion Survive Style

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. - Harry S Truman

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Nothing New Not Knowing

Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.Maya Angelou

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Floor Critics Grab

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.Maya Angelou

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Uses Mute Hermit

When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.Mac Miller

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Balance Doubt Feeling Sad