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157 quotes by 146 authors

We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared… — Howard Zinn
Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture. — Tim Wise
I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasnâ€™t just movies that couldnâ€™t contain the… — Miranda July
What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything… — Ron Rash
But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of… — Terence McKenna
There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly. — Charles Duhigg
Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of… — Susan Abulhawa
I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply… — Flannery O'Connor
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions.… — Stephen Covey
Most people think of leaders as being these outgoing, very visible, and charismatic people, which I find to be a very narrow perception. The key… — Douglas Conant
My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and… — Miru Kim
I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine. — Janine di Giovanni
Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be… — Charlie Pierce
All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community,… — Troy Polamalu
When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to… — Travie McCoy
Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of… — Eduardo Paes
Search is now more than a web destination and a few words plugged into a box. Search is a mode, a method of interaction with… — John Battelle
Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side. — Alan Huffman
When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access… — Claire McCaskill
The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions… — Charles Platt

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