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Quote by James Baldwin
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much

The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. – James Baldwin

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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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Purity
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James Baldwin
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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin

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Poverty
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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. – James Baldwin

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Children
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Conformity & Nonconformity
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture? – David Bohm

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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. – Proverb

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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot

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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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People say the Lost Generation in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost. – Corey Stoll

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