In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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You are playing worse and worse every day and right now you are playing like it's next month. ~Herb Brooks
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone. ~Marc Cohn
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. ~Pauline Kael
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena? ~Dan Rather
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but, and bear with me here, a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared. ~John Corey Whaley
#quotes #john-corey-whaley #family

No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
#quotes #rainer-maria-rilke #writing #heart

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. ~Annie Leibovitz
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Let me tell you something. For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback. ~Michelle Obama
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