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"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."Source: 1896 Letter to Booker T. Washington | Author: George Washington Carver

"Have a vision. Be demanding."Source: It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership | Author: Colin Powell

"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful."Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci | Author: Leonardo da Vinci

"I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom."Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Author: Frederick Douglass

"In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes."Source: Art exhibit at the Moderna Museet | Author: Andy Warhol

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."Source: 1965 TV Broadcast | Speaker: J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Politics is the art of the possible."Source: St. Petersburgische Zeitung | Author: Prince Otto von Bismarck