I don't believe the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
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Look at my life. I'm floating like mercury around the earth. My footprints shine with stardust. All because I love you. All because you love me.Maya Angelou
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
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I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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this is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.
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Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead and . . . if the future road looms ominous or unpromising . . . then we need to gather our reslove and . . . step off . . . into another direction.
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