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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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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good…
— Samuel Beckett
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle…
— H. L. Mencken
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and…
— Adam Sedgwick
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The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country, the people…
— Bill O'Reilly
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A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context…
— George W. S. Trow
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The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to…
— John A. Keel
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Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life,…
— Frank Crowninshield
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A chronicle is very different from history proper.
— Howard Nemerov
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Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling…
— Henning Mankell
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Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that…
— Mark Doty
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History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.
— Louis Fischer
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