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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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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will…
— Edward Abbey
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God…
— Elizabeth Taylor
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It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if…
— Unknown Author
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A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.
— Marv Levy
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You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to…
— Osama bin Laden
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I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors;…
— John F. Kennedy
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If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of…
— Oswald J. Smith
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You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
— John Spence
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The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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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,…
— Ralph Ellison
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