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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to bi

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. – James Baldwin

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone. – James Baldwin

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alone
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James Baldwin
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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

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It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son – and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. – Helen Rowland

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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. – William Shakespeare

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy…. – John Adams

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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. – George Herbert

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Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes. – Maggie Kuhn

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You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. – William Lloyd Garrison

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Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good mans love. – Euripides

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