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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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I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.
— Lance Armstrong
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I am a gangsta, Ms. Katie. I don't take nothing from no one. I do what I wanna do.
— Lil Wayne
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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…
— Ralph Ellison
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Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it…
— Michel de Montaigne
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We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted.…
— William Redington Hewlett
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Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of…
— Unknown Author
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If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally, and if something blocks your route, find another. Never…
— Laurie Notaro
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In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.
— Adolphe Thiers
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It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be…
— Richard Ford
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The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your…
— Ken Wilber
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A good life with contentment is itself a great wealth. For we brought nothing with us into this world, and we can…
— Saint Timothy
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