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“You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.”
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“And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long. With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope. Seeking no favors because of our color, nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.”
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“Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed”
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“America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.”
Source : Invisible Man epilogue (1952)
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“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
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“Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.”
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“What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.”
Source : Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.273, Radclyffe Hall
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“It's VH1, it's everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.”
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“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”
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“It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).”
