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True Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people…
- We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through…
- Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the…
- True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life
- Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to…
- The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record is…
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
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- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood