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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. W. E. B. Du Bois

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. Walker Percy

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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured. Walter Anderson

Good Gems Like Precious Listeners Treasured

Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books. Walter Dean Myers

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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution. Walter Dean Myers

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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens. Walter Dean Myers

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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness. Walter Isaacson

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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Warren Bennis

Good Heart People Leaders Feel Make Periphery Very Things

There is a profound difference between information and meaning. Warren Bennis

Between Difference Information Meaning Profound

If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card. Warren Farrell

Man Woman Women Men Become Lawsuit Could Hallmark Belittle Card

Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes. Warren Farrell

Work War Heroes Men Every Society Virtually Firefighters Volunteer Sons Label Survived Did Warriors Disposable Socializing Need

People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week. Warren Farrell

Work People Per Percent More Week Hours Make Than Who

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. Washington Irving

Heart Imagination Spell He True Senses Whose

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. Washington Irving

Marriage Three Strife Torment Felicity Two Enmity

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. Washington Irving

Enthusiasm Eloquence Indeed True Doubted

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm. Wes Anderson

Together Conflict Sometimes Lonely Trapped Think Everybody Would Memorable Some More More Or Less Feels How Norm Story Less Things Pulled

I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting. Wes Anderson

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Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment. Wes Anderson

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It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. William Gibson

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Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse. William Godwin

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It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. William Godwin

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