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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.

Ralph Ellison

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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Caring Cop Gun Poet Thought Trigger Word
It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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Advantage Motivation Nerve Proud Shine Solitude Unseen Wear
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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Awesome Day Dancer Enjoy Feel Musician Play Scene Style
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
I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Awake Dream Invisible Remember Sleep Walk World
When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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Act American Life Life Positive Rules Theatrical
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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Adult Certain Illegal Individual Minorities Permission Prohibited
Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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Hope Man Picture Soaring Vulture
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Black History People Refuse Understand Visible
And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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Absurdity Awesome Better Die Life Live Share
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
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.
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Art Blue Circumstance Failing Human Irrepressible Music
We don’t all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.
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Art Depend Humanity Understanding Will
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Dangerous Few Permission Prohibited Sleepwaker World
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
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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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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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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