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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. James Baldwin

Justice Ignorance Enemy Power Case Allied Most Ferocious Any Certain

Prejudice is sinful. All blood flows red. And the most harmful and foolish kind of prejudice is prejudice against yourself. Every woman is your sister, and every woman needs her sisters. So try to give other women the courtesy of your compassion, respect, and forgiveness. Love yourself despite - and because of - your flaws. Jewell Parker Rhodes

Love Forgiveness Needs Respect Woman Women Love Yourself Yourself Try Compassion Sister Every Harmful Other Despite Kind Give Foolish Red Most Sinful Because Courtesy Blood Sisters Against Flaws Prejudice Your Her Flows

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach

World Master Caterpillar Calls End End Of The World Butterfly

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. Laurence Sterne

Strength Solitude Mind Lean Learns Itself Gains

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Charles Dickens

Dark Stronger Earth Dark Shadows Shadows Lights Contrast

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Tom Clancy

Government Knowledge You People Knowledge Is Power Power Control Despotic Something Particularly Does Always Form Information Elite

Fear is the mother of foresight. Thomas Hardy

Fear Mother Foresight

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka

Old Beauty Ability See Never Anyone Who Grows Keeps

The soul is healed by being with children. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Soul Healed Being Children

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. Paulo Coelho

You Staying River Drown Falling

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. Booth Tarkington

Woman Wife Husband Ideal Any Who

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. Elie Wiesel

Future Memory Culture Society Would Would-Be No Future Civilization Without

The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles. Jack Kerouac

Time Me People Live Saved Everything Mad Fabulous Only Like Talk Yellow Same Roman Candles Same Time Burn Who

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't. Luanne Rice

Saying Family Heart Not Knowing Separation Every Think Saying Goodbye See Wrenching Emotion No-One Goodbye Perhaps Knowing Understand Loss Escapes Person Different Experienced Anyone Story Again Basic

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. James Baldwin

Time Country Rage Relatively Almost Almost All Conscious

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. Elizabeth Bowen

Jealousy Alone Enemies Feeling More Smiling Than Against

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville

Better Imitation Fail Than Succeed Originality

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J. R. R. Tolkien

Says He Road Farewell

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