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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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No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional…
— Hugo Black
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Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts…
— Theodore Parker
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The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat."
— Elmer Davis
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Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
— Jay McInerney
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Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when…
— Hugh Miller
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Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.
— David Hilbert
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After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of…
— Louis Pasteur
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I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and…
— Pope Francis
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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from…
— Tayeb Salih
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For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today,…
— Hans Cloos
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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible…
— Aldo Leopold
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