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You can never loose a thing if it belongs to you.
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You Can Never Loose A Thing If

Abbey Lincoln
You can never loose a thing if it belongs to you.
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Then i felt too that i might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. time, like the sea, unties all knots. judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.
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The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' he does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. the mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.
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I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. it belongs to you. it belongs to you. i was never the likeliest candidate for this office. we didn't start with much money or many endorsements. our campaign was not hatched in the halls of washington. it began in the backyards of des moines and the living rooms of concord and the front porches of charleston. it was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.
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For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to god and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. and no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.
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Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt i owe themmy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.
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