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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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It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good…
— Winston Churchill
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O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not…
— Angela of Foligno
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Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible…
— Kristen Bell
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Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
— Edward Abbey
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In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of…
— Malcolm Lowry
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Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.
— Jane Hirshfield
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You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever,…
— Dale Carnegie
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
— Ines de La Fressange
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
— Ralph Ellison
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A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from…
— Dan Flavin
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