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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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Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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But he was not kidnapped. ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality.
— Unknown Author
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You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point…
— Neville Goddard
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Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.
— David Harley
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An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.
— Robin Gibb
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The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of…
— El Lissitzky
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by…
— Ralph Ellison
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In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not…
— Paulo Coelho
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The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.
— Robert Breault
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This is why man creates his own universes when he Knows them, and these universes can never be prior to man because…
— Sorin Cerin
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Every lover dips his heart in his own soul, and creates his own nature into his love.
— KM II
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