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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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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. – James Baldwin

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Experience
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James Baldwin
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Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. – James Baldwin

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Christianity
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Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

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Listening
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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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Ive started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman. – Craig Ferguson

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What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. – William Glasser

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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won. – Arthur Wellesley

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I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two. – Ava Gardner

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