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Benjamin L Hooks: Some [Blacks] lack...

Benjamin L Hooks: Some [Blacks] lack...

Some [Blacks] lack a real grasp of the bitter struggle that was waged to pry open the corporate doors. The buppies...

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Alexander Cockburn: The travel writer...

Alexander Cockburn: The travel writer...

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost -- the lost valleys of the imagination.

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Orison Swett Marden: The Creator has...

Orison Swett Marden: The Creator has...

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

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Jean Toomer: No eyes that...

Jean Toomer: No eyes that...

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Source: Cane, 1923.
-- Jean...

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Nora Ephron: With any child...

Nora Ephron: With any child...

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the...

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Konrad Lorenz: Barking dogs may...

Konrad Lorenz: Barking dogs may...

Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

Source: In...

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Marjorie Rosen: Studios, purporting to...

Marjorie Rosen: Studios, purporting to...

Studios, purporting to ease the anguish of Depression reality, transformed movies into the poIitics of fantasy, the...

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Herodotus: Men trust their...

Herodotus: Men trust their...

Men trust their eyes less than their ears.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Herodotus: Great deeds are...

Herodotus: Great deeds are...

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Titus Livy: We fear things...

Titus Livy: We fear things...

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: The twentieth century...

Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: The twentieth century...

The twentieth century will be remembered chiefly, not as an age of political conflicts and technical inventions, but...

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Jacob Bronowski: That is the...

Jacob Bronowski: That is the...

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: My dreams were...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: My dreams were...

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed -- my dearest pleasure...

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Alice Walker: God is inside...

Alice Walker: God is inside...

God is inside you and inside everybody else. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just...

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Ralph Ellison: The act of...

Ralph Ellison: The act of...

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers...

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Anthony Trollope: A man's mind...

Anthony Trollope: A man's mind...

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by...

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Charles Buxton: The rule in...

Charles Buxton: The rule in...

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a...

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Anatole France: It is human...

Anatole France: It is human...

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

Source: In Webster's...

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Anatole France: If fifty million...

Anatole France: If fifty million...

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Source:...

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Aesop: Slow and steady...

Aesop: Slow and steady...

Slow and steady wins the race.

Source: The Hare and the Tortoise.
-- Aesop, ( ...

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