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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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Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and…
— Julie Burchill
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I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks…
— Sandra Bullock
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As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on…
— Julie Burchill
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If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. If you give up drinking, don't go moaning about it;…
— Peter O'Toole
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Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing…
— Twiggy
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Easy? You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex,…
— Kim Cattrall
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Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don’t know how people who engage in that don’t commit…
— Bertie Ahern
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Beginning today, I will create a new future by creating a new me. No longer will I dwell in a pit of…
— Andy Andrews
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I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different.…
— Ione Skye
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The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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If you'll quit moaning and crying, I'll use the things to make you into someone I can use in the lives of…
— Kay Arthur
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Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the…
— Terry Pratchett
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