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Nannie Burroughs: What we need...

Nannie Burroughs: What we need...

What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose . . . We're a race ready for crusade, for...

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Michel de Certeau: Political organizations have...

Michel de Certeau: Political organizations have...

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. . ....

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Catharine Esther Beecher: As if reasoning...

Catharine Esther Beecher: As if reasoning...

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is...

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bell hooks: Usually, when people...

bell hooks: Usually, when people...

Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the...

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Of all these...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Of all these...

Of all these questions the one he asks most insistently is about man. How does he walk? How does the heart pump blood?...

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Carl Sagan: One of the...

Carl Sagan: One of the...

One of the greatest gifts adults can give -- to their offspring and to their society -- is to read to...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to . . . face a situation fearlessly, and [if]...

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Isaac Singer: Every creator painfully...

Isaac Singer: Every creator painfully...

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate...

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Mahatma Gandhi: The weak can...

Mahatma Gandhi: The weak can...

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Source: In...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: What is needed,...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: What is needed,...

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear;...

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Alain Locke: The Younger Generation...

Alain Locke: The Younger Generation...

The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks,...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The desire to...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The desire to...

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does...

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Betty Smith: The difference between...

Betty Smith: The difference between...

The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do...

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Orson Scott Card: Humanity does not...

Orson Scott Card: Humanity does not...

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness...

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Lewis Carroll: The rule is,...

Lewis Carroll: The rule is,...

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today.

Source: The...

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Time has lost...

Time has lost...

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American...

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Showing up at...

Showing up at...

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start...

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We wallow in...

We wallow in...

We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed...

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The more immoral...

The more immoral...

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

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I believe that...

I believe that...

I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself...

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