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Ralph Ellison: The antidote to...

Ralph Ellison: The antidote to...

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. Or, as...

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Jesse Jackson: When the doors...

Jesse Jackson: When the doors...

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk...

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Margot Asquith: What a pity,...

Margot Asquith: What a pity,...

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

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Corrie Ten Boom: Faith is like...

Corrie Ten Boom: Faith is like...

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot...

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With our progress...

With our progress...

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call...

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I was not...

I was not...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my...

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Ralph Ellison: I am invisible,...

Ralph Ellison: I am invisible,...

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Source: The...

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The basic unit...

The basic unit...

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of...

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Edward Albee: What people really...

Edward Albee: What people really...

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

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A J P Taylor: We are apt...

A J P Taylor: We are apt...

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is...

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An optimist stays...

An optimist stays...

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year...

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A country governed...

A country governed...

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

Source: Life of Johnson, (J....

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Isaac Newton: To every action...

Isaac Newton: To every action...

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Source: third law of...

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Benjamin Franklin: He was so...

Benjamin Franklin: He was so...

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride...

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Anne Sullivan: Obedience is the...

Anne Sullivan: Obedience is the...

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the...

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Jesse Jackson: No one should...

Jesse Jackson: No one should...

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a...

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The talent of...

The talent of...

The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an...

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Alain Locke: The pulse of...

Alain Locke: The pulse of...

The pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.

Source: The New Negro,...

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Our society is...

Our society is...

Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.

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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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