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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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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant…
— John von Neumann
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it,…
— Walter Bagehot
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Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at…
— Norman Macbeth
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I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seemes careless of having anything…
— John Clare
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Jaguar — For men who'd like hand-jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.
— Dudley Moore
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People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream…
— George Mikes
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I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the…
— Ralph Ellison
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Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had…
— George Santayana
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I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they…
— Pierre Bonnard
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On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
— Albert Ellis
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