In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
Today, we're struggling a lot, both men and women, with finding out what we're supposed to be. Like when you go on… — Birgitte Hjort Sørensen Copy Share Image
If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off. — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
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For every stone that [Pablo Escobar] threw, he would get many thrown back at him and us, his family, because we were… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Do not grow overconfident following a few victories. Should you not rely upon the Holy Spirit you will soon be thrown once… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
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As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
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