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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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Nannie Burroughs: When the Negro...

Nannie Burroughs: When the Negro...

When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even...

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Michel de Certeau: The only freedom...

Michel de Certeau: The only freedom...

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family...

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Freda Adler: Stripped of ethical...

Freda Adler: Stripped of ethical...

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses...

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Martha Carey Thomas: It is the...

Martha Carey Thomas: It is the...

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new...

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bell hooks: Secrets find a...

bell hooks: Secrets find a...

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Knowledge is the...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Knowledge is the...

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Source: My Last Will and Testament, in...

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Emile M Cioran: To be human...

Emile M Cioran: To be human...

To be human is no solution, any more than ceasing to be so.

Source: In Webster's...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad...

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Ariel Durant: It is good...

Ariel Durant: It is good...

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on...

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Daniel Defoe: The best of...

Daniel Defoe: The best of...

The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.


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Agatha Christie: I like living....

Agatha Christie: I like living....

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I...

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Thomas Mann: A great truth...

Thomas Mann: A great truth...

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Source: Essay on...

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Henry Miller: All growth is...

Henry Miller: All growth is...

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of...

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Paul Sweeney: Self-delusion is pulling...

Paul Sweeney: Self-delusion is pulling...

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Source: In...

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Henry Kissinger: The illegal we...

Henry Kissinger: The illegal we...

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Source:...

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Wilkie Collins: This is the...

Wilkie Collins: This is the...

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can...

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Emile Zola: If I cannot...

Emile Zola: If I cannot...

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

Source:...

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Etty Hillesum: Life cannot be...

Etty Hillesum: Life cannot be...

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is...

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