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Quote by James Baldwin
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born,

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin

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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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History
Author
James Baldwin
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He may be a very nice man. But I havent got the time to figure that out. All I know is, hes got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. Thats the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die. – James Baldwin

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Control
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James Baldwin
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Change
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Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children. – Ron Fournier

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Change

I love to watch times change! – Karl Lagerfeld

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Change

The first resistance to social change is to say its not necessary. – Gloria Steinem

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Change

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. – Ice T

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Change

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The best things in life are unexpected — because there were no expectations. – Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok

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Attitude

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to tear down this wall, a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire. – Mitt Romney

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Freedom

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. – Thomas Fuller

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Promises