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William Standish Knowles quote: "I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I..."

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

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It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it. Helena Bonham Carter
The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin. Lavrenti Lopes
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I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid. Tyne Daly
That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing. Haruki Murakami
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished. It must surely... Howard Zinn
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Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion. Herman Kahn
I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks withphrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which allthese phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories? Virginia Woolf
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I' been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings. Clarence Thomas
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Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread. Ray Bradbury
I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative. Lisa Marie Presley
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I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies. Ram Dass
Henry Louis Gates quote: "I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course,..."
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.' Henry Louis Gates
She knew - she knew by now - that there really can be a person, one at least, that you can embrace as easily and wholly as though the two of you were one thing, a thing that once upon a time was broken into pieces and is now put back together. And how could she know this unless he knew it too? It was part of the wholeness, that he must; and that too she knew. With her he was for a moment whole, they were whole: as whole as an egg, and as fragile. John Crowley
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Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands. Pierre Curie
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