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Aldous Huxley
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
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Charles Austin Beard
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
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David Thomas
The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.
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John Dewey
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
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Jane Fonda
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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Edmund White
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
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Malcolm De Chazal
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
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Joan Didion
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Pearl Buck
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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