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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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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain…
— Karen Armstrong
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think…
— Martha Beck
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Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to…
— Tony Campolo
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We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural…
— E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how…
— Barack Obama
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Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we…
— John Cage
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The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril
— Barack Obama
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Our whole world is entrenched in sin. There in the quiet of our hearts a woman is calling us, each one of…
— Jim Caviezel
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People with mental problems are our neighbors. They are members of our congregations, members of our families; they are everywhere in this…
— Rosalynn Carter
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We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor…
— Thoraya Obaid
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If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable,…
— Karen Traviss
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We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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