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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Ralph Ellison

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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Adult Certain Illegal Individual Minorities Permission Prohibited
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.” Stephen Covey “It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Act Circle Commitment Involvement Study Work
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Dangerous Few Permission Prohibited Sleepwaker World
Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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Chaos Desire Emerge Giving Patterns Positive Try
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Hobby Myself Past Require Shadow Skill Value Writing
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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Action Activity Energy Form Mind Power Shapes
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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Clock Empty Life Perfect Positive Sirens Tick Trying Urgency Value
Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
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Ability Humanity Little Lying Power Reveal Writer
Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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Believe Confidence Inspirational Power Trust
When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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Available Discover Inspirational Inspiring Life One Liner
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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Ancestor Emotion Family People Relationship
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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Affair Beauty Dream Feel Love Price Relation Task
America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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Copy Exact Recognize Same Strand Unchanged Woven
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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Act Individual Life Men Minor Minority Novel Universal
I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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Ditch Guilt Hurt Invisibility Pain Sorror
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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Good Time Identity Memories Memory Odds Punctual Remember

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