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/ page 737 of 1205 /The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
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If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
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It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
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But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
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One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
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What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
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For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
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For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.
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