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• One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind—dealing with Texas—is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.

  Robert E. Howard

  Writing, Texas, Order

  From a letter to August Derleth, March 1933.

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• Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth Is, Falsehood

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2691, Delphi Classics

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• The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants.

  Winston Churchill

  Faithful Servants, Realization, Earth

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• You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.

  Raoul Peck

  Eye, Exercise, Reality

  "James Baldwin Was Never Your Negro". Interview With Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 3, 2017.

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• I think it’s really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you’re going to do.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Growth, Important

  "Liev Schreiber On ‘Goon,’ Ice Hockey And Naomi Watts". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• You can not bring back the past. But you certainly can not repeat it. Life is short, even if live to ninety. Live to the fullest - that's how I feel. Appreciate every moment, every hour, every day, because they do not blink of an eye, all over. I am absolutely sure that for most people their death comes as a surprise.

  Bruce Willis

  Life Is Short, Eye, Past

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• Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.

  Tony Robbins

  Belief, Impossible, Command

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

  Charles A. Reich

  Truth Is, Explosives

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.

  Jack Welch

  Victim, Situation, Bad Situations

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• We can not understand the visible problem until we go to the invisible one.

  Randall Collins

  Problem, Invisible, Visible

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• It means a great deal to have the faith and trust of so many people who share the view and vision I have for the USA and I'm going to do everything I can not to let them down.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Views, Usa

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

  Alex Campbell

  Boys, Wife, World

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• I think books are just a great ticket to get you outside of yourself. You can not be you for a second and live in the shoes of a character, which is a special thing.

  Dan Mangan

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the world, or in himself, that he discovers. It will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. This has always been, and always will be, poetry's office.

  Conrad Aiken

  Men, Office, Done

  "Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9". Interview with Robert Hunter Wilbur in September 1963, "The Paris Review", www.theparisreview.org. Winter - Spring 1968.

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• You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  People, Comedy, Behaving Badly

  "Key & Peele: 'That’s what Obama should say'". Interview with Willa Paskin, www.salon.com. October 7, 2012.

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• And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Summer, Heart, June

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• Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.

  Kofi Annan

  Revolution, Ends, Force

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• I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.

  Ansel Adams

  Thinking, Mold, Fit

  Source: www.tribalartasia.com

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• I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Evolution, Software

  Source: www.ibiblio.org

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• You can not be successful without confronting rejection.

  Michael Ealy

  Successful, Rejection, Confronting

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think about something else, but also act together. If you are thinking about an elemental solidarity, you are thinking about people acting together and taking decisions together, and thereby beginning to think about what sort of society they want to create. So, there is a need for liberated spaces; that is really difficult.

  Nigel Gibson

  Thinking, Space, People

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• One must not politicize science. But the converse is not necessarily true. There's no reason why scientists can not go into the public sphere. In fact, I would argue they should.

  Rush D. Holt, Jr.

  Facts, Spheres, Reason Why

  "One of the Most Famous Scientists in the World Just Explained Why Trump Is an Existential Threat". Interview With Emily Atkin, www.motherjones.com. February 28, 2017.

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• We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.

  Jon Stewart

  Years, Journalism, Professionalism

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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