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"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
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Honore de Balzac

"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."

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"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love."
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Honore de Balzac

"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love."

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"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love."
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"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love."

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"I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it."
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Toni Cade Bambara

"I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it."

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"It's a dismally lonely business, writing."
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Toni Cade Bambara

"It's a dismally lonely business, writing."

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"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."
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Toni Cade Bambara

"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."

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"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality."
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Toni Cade Bambara

"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality."

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"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."
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Toni Cade Bambara

"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."

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"And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living."
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Toni Cade Bambara

"And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living."

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"When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did."
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Toni Cade Bambara

"When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did."

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"I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves."
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Toni Cade Bambara

"I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves."

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"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it."
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Ann Bancroft

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it."

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"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
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George Bancroft

"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."

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"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
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George Bancroft

"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."

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"Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect."
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George Bancroft

"Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect."

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"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."
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George Bancroft

"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."

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"The public is wiser than the wisest critic."
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George Bancroft

"The public is wiser than the wisest critic."

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"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."
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George Bancroft

"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."

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"The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another."
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George Bancroft

"The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another."

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"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."
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George Bancroft

"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."

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"Avarice is the vice of declining years."
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George Bancroft

"Avarice is the vice of declining years."

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"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible."
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George Bancroft

"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible."

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"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."
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George Bancroft

"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."

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"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
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George Bancroft

"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."

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"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."
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George Bancroft

"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."

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"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
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George Bancroft

"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."

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"People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives."
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Albert Bandura

"People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives."

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"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."
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Albert Bandura

"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."

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"Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers."
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Albert Bandura

"Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers."

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"There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life."
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Albert Bandura

"There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life."

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"Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing."
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Albert Bandura

"Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing."

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"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears."
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Albert Bandura

"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears."

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"Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences."
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Albert Bandura

"Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences."

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"Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience."
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Albert Bandura

"Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience."

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"I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor."
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Ashleigh Banfield

"I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor."

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"We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?"
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Ashleigh Banfield

"We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?"

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"I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one."
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John Kendrick Bangs

"I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one."

Lie,
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"No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse."
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Lester Bangs

"No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse."

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"No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything."
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Lester Bangs

"No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything."

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"Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form."
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Lester Bangs

"Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form."

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"That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place."
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Lester Bangs

"That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place."

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"The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious."
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Lester Bangs

"The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious."

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"The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that."
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Lester Bangs

"The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that."

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"The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do."
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Lester Bangs

"The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do."

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"When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level."
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Lester Bangs

"When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level."

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"It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics."
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Lester Bangs

"It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics."

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"In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care."
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Lester Bangs

"In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care."

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"The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience."
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Lester Bangs

"The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience."

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"Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse."
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Lester Bangs

"Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse."

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"Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down."
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Lester Bangs

"Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down."

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