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For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
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For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 43 -
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential, the imagination.
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For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.
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For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.
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For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
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For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111 -
For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
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