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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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Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline,…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
— Harry Browne
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The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
— Marlon Brando
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In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work…
— Barack Obama
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
— Pauline Kael
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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,…
— Ralph Ellison
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You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
— Thomas Sowell
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You never want to tie your responsibility to another's irresponsibility.
— Bill Crawford
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If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
— James S. Coleman
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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art…
— Angela Carter
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Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of…
— Stephen Kendrick
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When we begin to set boundaries with people we love, a really hard thing happens: they hurt. They may feel a hole…
— Henry Cloud
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