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God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can't trace his hand, trust his heart.
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christian
inspirational
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Max Lucado (Grace for the Moment) |
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There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.
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Grace Metalious |
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The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.
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hero
life
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Grace Metalious |
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792f327
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She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.
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Grace Metalious |
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d8fb8ae
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Indian summer is like a woman.
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opening-lines
simile
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Grace Metalious |
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It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither of them could have defined or described made every moment of this time together too short, too quickly gone, yet clearer and more sharply edged than any other.
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life
moments
saturday
teenage-love
teenagers
youth
youthfulness
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Grace Metalious |
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I am often asked what keeps me going after all these years. I think it is the realization that there is no final struggle. Whether you win or lose, each struggle brings forth new contradictions, new and more challenging questions. As Alice Walker put it in one of my favorite poems: I must love the questions themselves as Rilke said like locked rooms full of treasures to which my blind and groping key does not yet fit.1
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay.
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Grace Metalious |
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d7ca712
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How are we going to bring about these transformations? Politics as usual--debate and argument, even voting--are no longer sufficient. Our system of representative democracy, created by a great revolution, must now itself become the target of revolutionary change. For too many years counting, vast numbers of people stopped going to the polls, either because they did not care what happened to the country or the world or because they did not b..
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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A happy life is not a life with a lot of results; it's a life with a lot of happiness in the process.
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Elizabeth Grace Saunders |
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4e672e1
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My emotional state is determined by where my attention goes.
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motivation
self-improvement
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Elizabeth Grace Saunders |
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Time investment is the NEW Time Management.
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success-strategies
time-management
work-life-balance
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Elizabeth Grace Saunders |
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To our amazement Jimmy received a letter, dated August 20, 1963, from Bertrand Russell, the world-famous philosopher and peace activist, saying "I have recently finished your remarkable book The American Resolution" and "have been greatly impressed with its power and insight." The letter goes on to ask for Jimmy's views on whether American whites "will understand the negro [sic] revolt because "the survival of mankind may well follow or fai..
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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In the 1950s I rarely went to a community meeting without Jimmy and would usually just listen or ask questions. Now, having worked in the city and socialized with Jimmy's friends and Correspondence readers for years, I felt I had something to contribute. I was beginning to feel comfortable with the we pronoun, so comfortable that in FBI records of that period I am described as Afro-Chinese.
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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Look on yourself as a citizen in a kingdom of persons, he advised. Act always as if the maxim of your action could become a universal law, always treating mankind, as much in your own person as in that of another, as an end, never as a means.3
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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In times of crisis you either deepen democracy, or you go to the other extreme and become totalitarian. Our struggles for democracy have taught us some important and valuable lessons. Over a million citizen activists of all ethnic groups, mostly young people, made history by going door to door, urging voters to go to the polls and send Barack Obama to the White House in 2008. We did this because we believed and hoped that this charismatic b..
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves.
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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What the most advanced researchers and theoreticians in all of science now comprehend is that the Newtonian concept of a universe driven by mass force is out of touch with reality, for it fails to account for both observable phenomena and theoretical conundrums that can be explained only by quantum physics: A quantum view explains the success of small efforts quite differently. Acting locally allows us to be inside the movement and flow of ..
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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A human being," Einstein concluded, "is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by w..
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about how life in the United States in New York changed in twenty-seven years fifty years ago. ("Wants")"
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Grace Paley |
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If God was going to do what He thought was best anyway, why bother to ask for anything one wanted? If you prayed, and God thought that what you asked should be granted, He would grant it. If you did not pray, and it was true that God always acted in one's best interest, you would receive whatever He wanted you to receive anyway.Prayer, thought Allison, was a dreadfully unfair, rather unsportsmanlike affair, with all the advantages on one si..
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prayer
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Grace Metalious |
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Still, it becomes clearer every day that organizing or joining massive protests and demanding new policies fail to sufficiently address the crisis we face. They may demonstrate that we are on the right side politically, but they are not transformative enough. They do not change the cultural images or the symbols that play such a pivotal role in molding us into who we are.
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social-change
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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I also gained a deeper appreciation of what it must have been like for my mother to be in a foreign country unable to speak the language (in her case, unable to read or write any language). As I walked around by myself, however, it was obvious that based on my body language people perceived me as American but at the same time different enough from other Americans that they felt free to come up and ask me all kinds of personal questions abou..
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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various identity struggles... have also had a shadow side in the sense that they have encouraged us to think of ourselves more as determined than as self-determining, more of victims of 'isms' (racism, sexism, capitalism, ableism) than as human beings who have the power of choice.
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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we have much to learn from the struggles in Alabama and Mississippi in the early 1960s. In the spring of 1963 the Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by Dr. King launched a "fill the jails" campaign to desegregate downtown department stores and schools in Birmingham. But few local blacks were coming forward. Black adults were afraid of losing their jobs, local black preachers were reluctant to accept the leadership of an "Outsider,..
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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Looking at Moby Dick as a mid-twentieth century revolutionist who was also a lover of Shakespeare, he had come to the conclusion that Melville's masterpiece was the "first comprehensive statement in literature of the conditions and perspectives for the survival of Western civilization."28 He saw Ahab, the mad captain taking the Pequod to the bottom of the ocean in pursuit of the white whale, as the forerunner of the totalitarian dictators o..
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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Some years ago I saw a documentary on dying whose main theme was that people die as they lived. That was Jimmy. For five years, since he began undergoing operations for bladder cancer and even after his lung cancer was diagnosed, he continued the activities that he considered important, marching against crackhouses, campaigning against the demolition of the Ford Auditorium, organizing Detroit Summer, making speeches, and writing letters to ..
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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With the end of empire, we are coming to an end of the epoch of rights. We have entered the epoch of responsibilities, which requires new, socially-minded human beings and new, more participatory and place-based concepts of citizenship and democracy.
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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77e58ca
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The physical threat posed by climate change represents a crisis that is not only material but also profoundly spiritual at its core because it challenges us to think seriously about the future of the human race and what it means to be a human being.
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climate-change
social-change
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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Existentialist psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom identified what he calls humans' ultimate concerns: death, isolation (loneliness), freedom, and meaning.118 These concerns reflect our deep fundamental needs. We search to understand the meaning of life, but no question provokes more debate. We feel desperate to experience gratification, so much so that we often rob ourselves of it by overindulging
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Annie Grace |
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Do we need to talk about my kissing you a year ago? I've behaved myself for two weeks, Ellen, and hope by action I have reassured you where words would not." Silence or the summer evening equivalent of it, with crickets chirping, the occasional squeal of a passing bat, and the breeze riffling through the woods nearby. "Ellen?" Val withdrew his hand, which Ellen had been holding for some minutes, and slid his arm around her waist, urging her..
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Grace Burrowes |
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If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.
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Grace Metalious |
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685ca67
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Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens, the noble-sounding attitude on which most of us pride ourselves degenerates into weakness and acquiescence.
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Grace Metalious |
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4ee4f36
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Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.
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Grace Metalious |
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In the 1950s Detroit was undergoing changes in the city and factories with enormous political consequences. When I arrived in Detroit the city had just begun Urban Renewal (which blacks renamed "Negro Removal") in the area near downtown where most blacks were concentrated. Hastings Street and John R, the two main thoroughfares that were the hub of the commerce and nightlife of the black community, were still alive with pedestrians. Large se..
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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Meanwhile, angered by white violence in the South and inspired by the gigantic June 23 march in Detroit, grassroots people on the streets all over the country had begun talking about marching on Washington. "It scared the white power structure in Washington, D.C. to death," as Malcolm put it in his "Message to the Grassroots" and in his Autobiography.6 So the White House called in the Big Six national Negro leaders and arranged for them to ..
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Grace Lee Boggs |
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Well, then, thought Allison, why pray at all? If God was going to do what He thought was best anyway, why bother to ask for anything one wanted? If you prayed, and God thought that what you asked should be granted, He would grant it. If you did not pray, and it was true that God always acted in one's best interests, you would receive whatever He wanted you to receive anyway. Prayer, thought Allison, was a dreadfully unfair, rather unsportsm..
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Grace Metalious |
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when you start telling a man he's got to do this, that or the other thing, you're coming pretty damned close to infringing on a citizen's rights.
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Grace Metalious |
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Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they're bums and kidnappers, but when the Church says it, it is known as putting a kid on the right track.
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Grace Metalious |
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He hears every single word," assured the Reverend Fitzgerald, but Allison asked silently, If He really hears, why is it that He often does not answer? "Sometimes," said the minister, "The Almighty Father must refuse us. Like a loving father on earth, refusing a child for his own good, so must our Heavenly Father sometimes refuse us. But He always acts in our best interests." Well, then, thought Allison, why pray at all? If God was going to ..
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Grace Metalious |
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L'estate indiana e come una donna: morbida, calda, appassionata, ma incostante. Va e viene come e quando le pare e nessuno sa se arrivera davvero ne per quanto si tratterra. Nel New England settentrionale l'estate indiana tarda un poco l'avanzare dell'inverno e porta con se l'ultimo tepore dell'anno. E una stagione che non esiste e che vive fino al sopraggiungere dell'inverno, con la sua coorte di ghiaccio, di alberi spogli, di brina. I vec..
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Grace Metalious |
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and often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?"
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semantics
unintentional-humor
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Grace Metalious |
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3a0bcc9
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The door to the little dining parlor banged open, the apologetic footman rushing in behind a young woman St. Just had not seen before. She was trussed up in a shapeless black bombazine dress covering her from ankles to wrist to neck, an equally hideous black bonnet on her head. "That is not my tart," the earl observed to no one in particular. "Bronwyn!" The woman leapt across the room and wrapped her arms around Winnie, the bonnet tumbling ..
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Grace Burrowes |
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The dying process begins the minute you are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
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Carol Grace |