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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

Ralph Ellison

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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Action Definition Hibernation Implement Preparation
If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn’t care as long as they sang without dissonance.
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Contradictory Freedom Long Shout Sing Song Unison Voice
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
Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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Art Chart Current Life Man Philosophy Reduce Sea
What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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Desire Expected Happiness Lost Satisfy Trying Wish
I’m not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That’s how you make the new — by putting something else with what you’ve got. And I’m unashamedly an American integrationist.
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Imagination Implement Innovation Integrative Judge Plan Solution Task
Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
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Butterfly Friend Happy Journey Long Love Order Plan Travel
The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Discover Found Miracle Moral Possibility Shine World
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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Affair Beauty Dream Feel Love Price Relation Task
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Change Commitment Committed Deep Grow Grows
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
My hole is warm and full of light.
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Holes Life Light One Liner Positive Warm Women
I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?
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Attempt Denial Excuse Invisibility Invisible Irresponsible Lazy Way
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
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Control Enjoy Failure Happy Humanity Inspiring Life
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

Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

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