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She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.
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This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.
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The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
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Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he…
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A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.…
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At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able…
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
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As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
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Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and…
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Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano…
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The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If…
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Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory.
— G. Campbell Morgan
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Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
— James Frey
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I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
— Eleanora Duse
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Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are.…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Surrendering means non-desiring.
— Rajneesh
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Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and…
— Napoleon Hill
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or…
— Walter Raleigh
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Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can…
— Rajneesh
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Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you…
— Rajneesh
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The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you…
— Rajneesh
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The ego is goal-oriented. The ego is hankering for the future. It can hanker even for the other life, it can hanker…
— Rajneesh
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Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.
— Rajneesh
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