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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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I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
— Lord Byron
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In romance, I can’t stand this scenario: A woman is awakened to find a strange man in her bedroom—and then automatically finds…
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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 loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I…
— Mary Augusta Ward
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I dreamt and saw that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty. I served and found that duty…
— Thomas S. Monson
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I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened…
— William S. Burroughs
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I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I awoke, I spent that on a NECKLACE...
— Kanye West
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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre,…
— Jean Cocteau
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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
— Heinrich Heine
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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