Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common … - George Santayana

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I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice - and when are you going to see me next?"

George Santayana

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

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Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

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I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice - and when are you going to see me next?"

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Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs.

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Toni Morrison

Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon-everything belonged to the men who had the guns. . . . So you protected yourself and loved small. . . . A woman, a child, a brother-a big love like that would split you wide open in Alfred, Georgia. . . . To get to a place where you could love anything you chose-not to need permission for desire-well now, that was freedom

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I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.

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Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.

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