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"In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot."
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"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."
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"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."
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"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."
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"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"
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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."
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"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."
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"I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me."
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"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."
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"Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored."
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"Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be."
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"Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order."
Society
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."
Fear
"How I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast."
Memory
"Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease."
Ambition
"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life."
Life
"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare?"
Self
"There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."
Philosophy
"But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth-pagans and all included-can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?-to do the will of God-that is worship. And what is the will of God?-to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me-that is the will of God."
Religion
"For it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown."
Perspective
"The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and half a lung."
Literature
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