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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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If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step…
— Nelson DeMille
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He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if…
— Ernest K. Gann
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"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In…
— Janet Morris
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I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over…
— Alan D. Eames
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At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.
— Andrei Platonov
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As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a…
— Jim Butcher
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Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood…
— Jerry Saltz
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We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just…
— Pearl Cleage
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They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the…
— Leonard Cohen
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Wind howled throught the night, carrying the scent that would change the world.
— Christopher Paolini
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So it’s still standing?” he managed to get out between his snickers. “I would’ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble…
— Stephenie Meyer
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