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Joyce Carol Oates quote: "I consider tragedy the highest form of art."

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

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If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself. Carter G. Woodson
When you trust in the Lord, when you are willing to let your heart and your mind be centered in His will, when you ask to be led by the Spirit to do His will, you are assured of the greatest happiness along the way and the most fulfilling attainment from this mortal experience. If you question everything you are asked to do, or dig in your heels at every unpleasant challenge, you make it harder for the Lord to bless you. Richard G. Scott
Bill Russell quote: "The only important statistic is the final score."
The only important statistic is the final score. Bill Russell
Often he had the impression that the person answering questions from the scratchy armchair was a dummy he was controlling, that this had been true throughout his life, and that his life had become so involved with operating the dummy that he, the ventriloquist, had ceased to have a personality, becoming just an arm stuffed up the puppet's back. Jeffrey Eugenides
Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces. Craig L. Thomas
The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which he would dislike still more... this foresight, well or ill used, is the source of all the wisdom or the wretchedness of mankind. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good. Cynthia Payne
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men. Strom Thurmond
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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. Wayne Dyer
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We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels. Dick Armey
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured. From evils that never arrived. Ralph Waldo Emerson
...the person who loves everybody and feels at home everywhere is the true hater of mankind. He expects nothing of men, so no form of depravity can outrage him. Ayn Rand
Karl Pilkington quote: "The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't..."
The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife. Karl Pilkington
Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement Gilles Deleuze
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In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages. Antoine de Saint-Exupery