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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. – Toni Morrison

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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. – Toni Morrison

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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. – Toni Morrison

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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it. – Toni Morrison

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The only real power comes out of a long rifle. – Joseph Stalin

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A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster. – John Kasich

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I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you. – Ayelet Waldman

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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. – Erich Fromm

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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. – Huston Smith

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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. – Will Rogers

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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. – C. S. Lewis

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