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Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute… — Patricia J. Williams
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play… — Jeremy Denk
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively… — Christopher Dawson
We need to support the governments of the world to create the world we want and I also think we need to empower the UN… — Jeremy Gilley
...protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind… — Liona Boyd
... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what… — Phil Lesh
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. — Jay Sankey
And believe me, to have been in the city of Tuscaloosa in October when you were young and full of Early Times and had a… — Howell Raines
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own. — John D. MacDonald
Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them. — Paul Gauguin
Desire is the putting of my will into Godâ€™s concern. Itâ€™s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of… — Jim Elliot
The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide… — David Breashears
The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the… — P.J. O'Rourke
You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that… — Tom Osborne
Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and… — Jackie Collins
I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just… — Steven Morrissey
My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very… — Rudolf Hess

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