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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and…
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment…
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Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural…
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be…
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the…
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find…
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point…
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We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to…
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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it,…
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There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after…
— Jane Campion
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As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for…
— Tony Campolo
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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
— Winston Churchill
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You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.
— Pat Summitt
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The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let…
— Robert Sherrod
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of…
— Philip Zimbardo
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There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.
— Albert Camus
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It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can…
— Norman Lear
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One of the most awesome things about sports, particularly team sports, is that everything you need to do to be successful on…
— Sheila Cornell-Douty
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It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people,…
— Wilbur Olin Atwater
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Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to…
— Melody Beattie
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Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?
— Jerry Seinfeld
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