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One Quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye
- Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.
- Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS…
- For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can…
- There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.
- Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.
- Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.
- As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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