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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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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body…
— Denis Waitley
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We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.
— Robert Breault
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Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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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…
— Ralph Ellison
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The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our…
— George Washington
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
— Stephen Covey
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If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our…
— Betty Eadie
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From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our…
— Dawna Markova
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Jesus receives us with all of our limitations, He bring us the mercy of the Father who forgives us, and transforms our…
— Pope Francis
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I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I…
— Azar Nafisi
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In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,
— Maurice Herzog
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