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Digging Quote by Holly Near

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“We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.”

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Digging Relative Truth

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When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

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All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear…

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My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

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You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

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My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

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Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

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A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

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In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity…

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Peace can start with just one heart.

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Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas…

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I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get…

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Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

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Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants…

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In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

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I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

John Mellencamp

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From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

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When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks…

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I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for…

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The Ancient One, as you know, is the master, is the Sorcerer Supreme, and [Doctor] Strange comes to learn how to heal himself and…

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I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy…

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I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate…

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I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's…

Haruki Murakami

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If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that…

Russell Simmons

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Keep digging, Flynn. Six feet makes a grave.

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