"I believe that every human being is potentially……" — James Agee
"I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself."
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40 Quotes by James Agee
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
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God doesn't believe in the easy way.
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You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised…
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In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the…
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A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in…
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The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
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Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine,…
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Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good…
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You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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