Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
~ Robert N. Bellah
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Writers all devise ways to approach that place where they expect to make the contact, where they become the conduit, or where they engage in this mysterious process.
~ Toni Morrison
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I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Modern psychology recognizes what Jesus taught centuries ago: Hate divides the personality and love in an amazing and inexorable way unites it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Markets for labor, land, and money are easy to distinguish; but it is not so easy to distinguish those parts of a culture the nucleus of which is formed by human beings, their natural surroundings, and productive organizations, respectively. Man and nature are practically one in the cultural sphere; and the money aspect of productive enterprise enters only into one socially vital interest, namely, the unity and cohesion of the nation.
― Karl Polanyi
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Men who are afraid live longer.
~ Edmund Cooper
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The internet of the 1990s was a perfect canvas for alarmism: hard to define, easy to misunderstand, growing rapidly but not yet vital or even familiar to those most inclined to worry about it.
~ John Herrman
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The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Art changes all the time, and when it changes, so does its history.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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