Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to … - Cornel West

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Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

Cornel West

Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and foremost in Gary, Indiana, working class.

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Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever. " That's hope. I'm a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.

Believe, Engage, Odds, Optimism, Things

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

Ifs, Lead, Love, People, Save, Serve

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Bigger, Living A Lie, Lying, Pay, Price, Truth

The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

Life, Hope, Country, Serving, Leave, Despair

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness. . . you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity. . . believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

Believe, Greatness, Integrity, Magnanimity, Personal, Vision

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Mary Cassatt

There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.

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Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

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Elizabeth Moon

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

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Jill Soloway

I remember learning about the Holocaust when I was in kindergarten and being terrified. I think we even watched a graphic video about it in Jewish day school. Although I was quite young, I remember making these vows to myself such as, I'm never going to love my country so much that I can't leave in a moment's notice.

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Alan Moore

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

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