Quotes 601 till 620 of 802.
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The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
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The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
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The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.
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The real Representative McDermott said Jason McDermott is no relation. The Congressman does have a son, but his name is James and he does not live in the Midwest.
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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
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The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.
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