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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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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
— Lord Byron
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
— Sydney Brenner
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
— Gustave Flaubert
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A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so…
— Wes Bentley
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We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
— Ariana Franklin
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There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos,…
— Robert Byron
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